CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 4 December 1914, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

MOTOR CARS IN TROUBLE.

To the Editor.

Sir, —In reply to "A Motorist," in your issue of the 2nd, kindly allow me a few words in your columns. lam quite willing to admit the happening on the Manawapou hill was partly due to my inexperience as a driver, but as to his assertions that I threw open the throttle and put the car at top gear, no one but an ignoramus would suggest going up such a slinpery hill at top speed. I think there were a fewmore experienced drivers there than he, even with his few weeks' knowledge of driving, who would be able to r>re- j sent a different side to the story. How I well the old saying fits us both in this case, that "a little knowledge is a, dangerous thing." His assertions savor not a little. oT the "made in Germany articles," that are now held in such ridicule throughout the world, and every Briton knows that he has to subtract and divide until it is reduced to a very small fraction. As to his allusion to the. not very pleased crowd who helped me out of my predicament, I would remind him that they were "Britons all," and mostly personal friends of my own; not like the one individual who, with his hands in his pockets, looked on and has taken a whole week concocting the fabrication betraying personal spite and malice. . NOVICE,