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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 118, 29 April 1924, Page 6

The Deputy Mayor will occupy the chair at Mr Mcllvride’s meeting in Hastings to-morrow, when he will deliver an address on the laihvaymen’s side of the strike. The Mayor’s donation to the Hastings Women’s Community Club’s piano fund was two guineas. The amount was erroneously stated in a paragraph in yesterday’s issue. Three men. penniless, dressed in civilian clothes were arrested at Melbourne yesterday and charged with being deserters from the Hood. Their names are given as Joseph Haugh (19), Albert Andrews (18), and Robert Guiller (18). They said they meant to go into the country and look for work. A party returning to Hastings from Wellington last week-end, report having met eight derelict motor cars overturned on the road. The driver says it is no wonder that there arc accidents, because, when he was driving along u clear, flat stretch, his speedometer registered 43 miles an hour, but other cars, running in the same direction, passed him by as if he was at a standstill. A taxi_ with a party of passengers," discovered his steering gear out of joint, when he was .at Storttord wdge last evening and, finding himselr so near home, he attempted to complete his journey with an erratic steering wheel. His course became naturally, eccentric and he ran into a post, whereupon some spectators rang up the police, saying that .»* drunken motorist was driving amuck at Stortford Lodge. Two police constables went to the locality and seeing the car abandoned on the side of the road they took possession of it and had it towed to the police station. In the meantime, the driver who had gone to try and get temporary repairs effected, /returned to find his car gone and, as the result of information supplied to him, he went to the Police Station, where he easily convinced the authorities that he was perfectly sober. It is probable, however, that though he escaped the major charge, he will have to appear before the court a charge of leaving his cat standing after dark without lights.