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Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1930, Page 8

That a hot bath is sometimes impossible in rigorous weather was impressed upon a Gisborne visitor to Hawke’s Bay recently. The householder with whom the Gisborne man was staying spoke in glowing terms of his hot-water service, and the visitor, a believer in the morning bath, suggested that he might continue the practice while on his holiday. "Certainly; there will be plenty of hot water,” replied the host. The visitor found next morning that there was certainly plenty of hot water, but a heavy frost —15 degrees of it—whitened the countryside, and at the same time froze all cold water pipes. The visitor filled the bath with boiling hot water, but the frozen cold water taps refused to yield anything to temper the water. Should a motorist swerve, or pull up to avoid a dog? asks the Dominion. Two more w’ere added to t,hose who take the negative side of the argument on Saturday afternoon, through a collision that caused a good deal of damage to a motor-car and a motor-truck. The car was going through Lowry Bay (toward the Hutt) closely followed by a motortruck. Suddenly a dog took possession > of the track; the car pulled up suddenly, and the truck in swerving to avoid the car, struck the back of the car violently, and skidded across the road. An axle of the truck was bent, the mudguards broken, and the windscreen smashed, while the .body of the car was crushed in. Still, the dog was unihjiirecL 'A’.'" v -