MINER GETS A LIFT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18192, 13 September 1933, Page 5

MINER GETS A LIFT

SEAT IN HONEYMOON CAE S. WESTLAND INCIDENT South Westland still lias picturesque incidents that* rival the days of the early gold diggings. It is not long ago since a miner in that region, having urgent business in Hokitika, waited anxiously bv the roadside to see if he could get a friendly lid northwards. Presently a motor-lorrv came along and gladly offered him a lift as far as fianhari. The driver told him Ins luck might be in, because, lie said, there, was a. light car not far ahead that was going to Hokitika, and if he* could overtake* it he might manage the journey. The lorry driver caught up with the car on the long Mount Hercules lull, but the more he honked and speeded ud. the more the driver of the car in

front took it as a signal that he was not going fast enough, and finally ‘'stepped on it" and got out of sight ' But. when the lorry pulled up at the Harihari Hotel there was the light car with its occupants at morning tea. The miner, living in the hush, had grown a bushy red beard and he must have looked the perfect prospector, and perhaps even something of the conventional bushranger, says the Christchurch Star. The young couple in the car gladly offered him a lift, and when he got in he found confetti strewn everywhere. To him it was an adventure, but what must it have been to the young couple?