LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 79, Issue 7147, 19 December 1949, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Car and Truck Collide A collision occurred between a car driven by George Snowden of Roto-o-rangi and a truck owned by Allan Leycester Wilson of Te Awamutu near the Mangapiko Hall at about 10.30 last Saturday night. Considerable damage was sustained by both vehicles. Mrs Kura Snowden, who was a passenger in the car, received slight injuries to one of her hands. Unique Choice of Birthplace.

Cats have often been known to choose strange p’a<—r wherein tn giv ■ birth to their but mother rat last week cho.\- a place that surely must be unique. The Otorohanga Plunket Nurse who visits Te Awamutu twice a week, on going to her car, found that the rat had left eight baby fats on the duster in her car. The nurse did not accept them as eight novel Plunket babies, and their stay in the world was but short, for they were eventually drowned.

Ancient Motor Buggy Visitors to Rotorua on Saturday were intrigued at seeing an ancient motor buggy ehugging its way along the street. The vehicle, an eighteen horse powered one. was made by the International Harvester Company in 1886. It has iron tyres and is chain driven. It has two seats and on Saturday it had as passengers some five or six children. It stopped to enable the members of the Rochdale Marching team to inspect it. It has no need for a horn as a warning device, for once it gets going it announces its approach with no uncertain sound. The children informed a Courier reporter that they were often taken for a ride in the venerable vehicle.