MOTOR TRUCK'S CAREER.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2560, 10 April 1928, Page 4

MOTOR TRUCK'S CAREER.

SENSATION AT PIO PIO SPORTS'.

ONLOOKERS RECEIVE THRILL. Some people there are who do not experience such inward stirring at the sound of the bagpipes as is produced by other forms of music. The case Avith motor vehicles, hoAVevei - , would appear to be different, evidence of Avhich was given at the Pio Pio sports meeting yesterday. Above that natural arena 1 Avhere the Pio Pio sports arc, annually held, Avas arrayed yesto-day the usual semi-circlo of motor caH|knd motor vehicles of yarious descriptions. These reposed majestically in an almost unbroken line on the? summit of the rise oA'erlooking the sports ground, when as a few stray note* of the bagpipes Avere Avafted on the breeze, a half-ton Overland truck, apparently catching the spirit of ' Pio Pio'is gala day, suddenly broke from the end of the,., line of vehicles and commenced a mad career down the embankment. Warnings of "Look out," "Look out," "She's coming dovvn." rent the air, and there was a hasty scattering of the onlookers from the path of the "gay but now dangerous vehicle. The .truck dashed doAvn the hill slope a distance of some' 130 yards, tore through the wire fence, and finally came to rest Avith an acrobatic movement at the foot of the rise. Fortunately there Avas no one in the A'ehicle and no one Avas hurt, the incident providing one, of the day's "thrills."