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Otago Witness, Issue 3277, 3 January 1917, Page 7

An elderly man and a little girl were admitted to the Southland Hospital on Saturday, 23rd, tho victims of a rather peculiar accident (says tho Southland Times). It appears that, in company with a boy, they were waiting on the kerb near one of the tram termini For a car, when a motor car. towing another by a rope, and hugging the footpath, parsed. The ropo seems to have parted when opposite the party on the kerb, with the result that the disabled car slewed round, knocked the boy aside, threw the old gentleman up against a telegraph polo, cutting his head, and knocked the little girl over, inflicting somewhat severe, although minor, injuries. An instance of the kindly help which Is being so freely given in many directions to returned soldiers is worthy of mention (says tho Hawkc's Bay Herald). Mr H. Harris, of Onga Onca, has generously presented a returned soldier, who has taken up t. Bection near Takapau, with the whole of Jho timber required for the new home