HUNT FOR FROST FISH ENDS IN TROUBLE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 23, 19 August 1932, Page 5

HUNT FOR FROST FISH ENDS IN TROUBLE

SEARCHER'S CAR IS BURIED IN SAND, THREE TIDES WASHING OVER IT A motorist who decided to look for frostfish on the beach near Brooklands, Christchurch, on Sunday came upon a heap of trouble. There was no frostfish. When he returned to his big six-cylinder car, which he had driven on to the beach, he found that the wheels had settled down over the bottom of the rims in the sand. He left the engine going and the exertions to extricate the car caused it to settle more deeply, and the sand was soon up to the running boards. The motorist sought the aid of a man With horses, but the job was hopeless. The tide came.in and,the car sank deeper untihthe water swept over it. ' --'"'"■' Mill • ■On Monday the car was buried to the top of the doors, and the , hood was wrecked by the three tides which* swept over it before the car was got out. A. motor-car ambulance was used to extract the car from its bed of sand, but that-was not accomplished without much digging, much flanking and tackle, and the strenuous efforts of eight or nine men. —Sim.