MOTOR SMASHES.

Grey River Argus, 4 March 1929, Page 4

MOTOR SMASHES.

IN SOUTHLAND. Fatal Results. (Per Press Association). INVERCARGILL, March 3. A shocking accident occurred at Kennington on Saturday afternoon, when h e North bound mail train to Dunedin ran down a motor car containing Mr ind Mrs Adams, of Bush Siding. They were on their way to town. Mrs Adams was killed outright, while Mr Adams was seriously injured, and was sub equently brought into the Southland Hospital, where he died shortly after admission. The car was badly smashed.

As tli e result of a serious collision about one o’clock on Saturday at ihe corner of Thames Street and North Road two young men. Stewart Henderson. aged 17 years, and his brother, Norris, aged about 22 years, residing at Waikiwi, were admitted to the Southland Ho pital, where Stewart succumbed o his injuries. The details of the occurrence are meagre, but it appears that the brothers were riding into town on a motor cycle, one on the pillion. At the intersection of Thames Street and North Road, they apparen.ly swerved to avoid an approaching car. and in ?o doing crashed headlong into a motor truck that was proceeding Mong the North Road. Medical attention was at once called for, and when Dr Collins arrived, he assi ted in removing the younger of the boys from underneath the truck. Subsequently the injured youths were removed in the ambulance to the hospital in an unconscious condition. The elder brother has a fracture of the base of the skull, cuts a?id abrasions, and is also suffering from shock.

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A goodly number of Blaketown people yesterday held a picnic at the Seven Mile, which proved mos' enjoyable, a feature being a good sports programme. All present voted it as good an outing as they ever attended. The sports results, after keen contests, wore as follows: —Single ladies’ race, Misr Knowles 1, Miss McGirr 2; married men’s race, Willis and Knowles dead heat; three-legged race. F. McEnaney and H. McHugh 1; e opement race. Miss Knowles and T. Browui 1; single men’s race, M. TJcEnaney 1, H. Dimond 2; wheelbarrow ace, F. McEnaney and H. McHugh 1; married women’s race, Airs Knowles 1, Mrs Brown 2; boys’ race, F. Brown 1, E. Brown 2; hop, step and jump, F. McEnaney 1, T. Brown 2; ladies’ stepping coinpeti ion. Miss K. Williams; bun rush, Coulton 1, McGirr 2.

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Now that we are already well into the New Year we wonder how many of those good resolutions, which re igiously we make every year, have already been broken. Those promises, aye, which we make, but in our hearts know that they will of a certainty be broken, the length of time they will remain unshattered being dependent solely on our own will powen But amongst all these resolutions there is one that,- assiduously, we maintain unbroken —to drink, throughout the year, «nly the one brand of spirit—Dewar’s Imperial Whisky. Griffen and Smith are the West Coast agents, and Dewar’s Imperial may also be obtained from the firm’s branch at Westport.-— Advt.

Once ag'Gn the dancer and the lover of dance inilsic has plenty of new records to choose from at A. E. Kilgour’s. Hear the following:—That’s mv weakness now, You’re Wonderful ffox trot), bv Nat Skilkret and his archest'a; There’s a Rainbow Round mv Shoulder, She didn’t say “Yes she didn’t say no” (fox trot), by All Star Orches'ra: “Truthful Parson Biown,” “The Devil is afraid of Music” (fox trots), by Nat Skilkret and bis orchestra. At A. E. Kilgour’s, the House for the lat^ Gf records.—Adv*

In these modern times when almost everybody has a ear, and those who haven’t one are going to get one, it is not surprising that there should be a quest for a better means of keeping up the appearance of the vehicles. The old method of applying paint and varnish has caused dissatisfaction with many, from ‘he owners of the lordly Rolls-Royce to the humble and serviceable Ford, in consequence of this, various experiments have been made to find a better way, and as a remit the wonderful Dueo process has be-m evolved Duco was not on the market long before its value was appreciated, and ill the cities it gave a fatal knock-out to ’he old system of the brush. For full particulars of this wonderful new method of painting and varnishing consult the Dispatch Foundry, Greymouth.—Advt.