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Otago Witness, Issue 3957, 14 January 1930, Page 72

Mr J. S. Duncan, of Christchurch, had an unusual experience during "The holidays. when driving his car near Geraldine. Mr Duncan saw ahead of him a hare, which ran along in front of the car. He accelerated, and gained on it. The hare then took several leaps into the air. and on the last occasion crashed against the windscreen. Luckily the windscreen was made of “ unbreakable " glass, and though it was cracked into small pieces, the splintered glass did not fly. The hare was killed bv the impact.

During the first nine months of this year the loss from fire in Great Britain and Ireland was £9.570.000, as compared with £6.008.000 for the corresponding nine months of 1928. ~ This suggests that the phenomenally dry weather this year has been responsible for an increase in the losses from fire. And this is confirmed by the fact that one has to go back to 1921—another dry year—before finding a January to September period in which tires have been more costly. It is not only drought that causes increased fire losses, however. A spell of severe frost s , e '? d ~p th ® fi Rtires, partly because difficulties may be met in finding water to fight the flames.