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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 February 1929, Page 5

“People who throw bottles at random on the highways should get three months in gaol without the option, said Mr. F. G. Farrell at the meeting of the council of the Auckland Automobile Association last week. “On a recent trip through the Waikato I noticed beer bottles every few miles from Cambridge to Huntly. Some hooligans apparently started out with, a load ot beer and tlie supply ended at Huntly. A number of the bottles were bi oken and they were sufficient to gash a tyre and cause a blow-out, and perhaps a capsize.” The chairman, Mr. A. Grayson, said he did not think the action could be attributed to sane and sober motorists. Mr Farrell: Ido not think the bottles were thrown from a horsedrawn vehicle. Xt looked like a drinking party in a car. Mr. G. Henning: No motorist who knows what trouble glass can cause would create such a nuisance. Perhaps the bottles were throivn by the passengers in a service car or by a lorry driver using solid tyres. Members expressed the opinion that no motorist should ignore any such offence coming under liis notice. One of Napoleon’s hats, a well-worn ! specimen, has been sold at auction for £3OOO. The hat will not leave France, since it was announced that the purchaser w r as a French army officer. The hat in the shape made famous byNapoleon was accompanied by a certificate guaranteeing that it had been sold by his valet to an old clothes man in 1814.