AFTERNOON RUNAWAY.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13164, 24 January 1936, Page 6

AFTERNOON RUNAWAY.

S ECON D EDITION

HORSE BOLTS IN MAIN STREET. CLEARS FENCE AND TAKES GIG There is a saying, in our language that “no news is good news., hut newspapermen do not subscribe to that, theory at all,, and yesterday a Herald representative took a walk, down the town in. an endeavour to locate some c-opv from, the Borough Council. Then, as if in answer to his wants, the staccato' patter of horses’ hoofs on the footpath behind, betokened that something unusual was taking place. A smart looking cob that had been standing harnessed to a. right gig in the section between Herbert and Co. and Crewe’s premises, bad suddenly taken fright, and it. dashed madly into the rail fence, jumping clear and somehow pulling the gig with it. The outfit smashed into the rear of Mr Crewe’s car as it went past, fortunately doing little damage, and then made across the road over the lowwall of the Square and on to the lawn. The animal by this time had recovered from its fright and when the right-hand wheel 01. the gig became fast in the bushes of a. thick hedge tree it stood still long enough for Air A. Morgan, of Herberts' staff to unleash it. Beyond a broken shaft and slight scratching the gig was intact. after the incident. Had thfis incident taken place 20 years ago it would not have been featured probably. hut gigs and runaways are something in the, nature of a. phenomenon in these days.