FORTY YEARS AGO

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3282, 30 June 1943, Page 3

FORTY YEARS AGO

RENOVATIONS AT HOTEL ACCIDENT AT KOMATA GIG CAPSIZES NEAR PAEROA (From the Ohinemuri Gazette of June 30, 1903.) We are always pleased to note improvements that are taking place in Paeroa, and the latest is the renovating and improving of the Commercial Hotel. Mr Harry Moore, the popular proprietor, has just had his house re-papered and painted inside, and has also new linoleum laid down. A large double glass door has been placed inside the main entrance and has had the effect of making the hotel more private and comfortable. Our Komata correspondent writes: An accident which might have proved fatal, and in which both parties concerned have tried to keep secret, occurred last Sunday night. It appears that a resident of Komata, having driven a lady friend into Paeroa to attend Divine Service, so I am told, and on their return journey, the night being cloudy and dark and the road not one of the best, they managed to get capsized. It seems they ran into a bank and the sulky turned over on its side. The gentleman had the luck to alight on his feet, but not so his lady love, who, feeling the sulky going, tried to hang on to the splash board, but was forced to let go, and thereby received a severe shaking, which kept her confined to the house for a day or two. Moral for ladies: Never mash a driver on a dark road.