ON EDGE OF CLIFF.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 18333, 3 November 1931, Page 4

ON EDGE OF CLIFF.

WOMEN MOTORISTS IN PERIL,

Two women clinging to the radiator of a motor car on a, cliff edge, with a sheer drop of more than 90ft below them. This was the dramatic film-like scene that was enacted at Kingsgate, near Margate, England, on September 13. It happened in a flash, interrupting a halt for refreshments in an hotel garden on the cliffg.

Mrs Beatrice Neal, of Ealing, and Mrs Caroline Wood, of Heme! Hempstead, who were visiting Margate, after a walk along the cliffs, sat down in the garden for refreshment. Suddenly a motor car crashed into them. /

The women, with table, chairs ahd all, were flung against the low railings at the cliff edge. The fence gave way under the weight of the car, but did not actually break. The women were abl(\ to cling to the car’s radiator until other people who rushed to their assistance grabbed them and held on. Eventually the. car was hauled back to the road, and the two women, who suffered severely from shock, were taken to a hospital. Each had cuts on the arms and legs. One of the women lost her handbag, which fell to the sands below, but was afterwards retrieved by a boy visitor.

Pomegranates. Not for many years have pomegranates been marketed in Dunedin, says the Star. Some of the younger folk have probably never seen this fruit. It has been cultivated in Asia from the most ancient times, is frequently mentioned in the Old Testament, and is one of the luxuries promised to tho Israelites in their march from Egypt, Canaan being described To them ,as “a land of wheat and barley and vines, and fig-trees and pomegranates.” A Dunedin firm has just 1 imported twenty cases of pomegranates from California in 361 b cases that are being sold at £1 per case. Externally, the pomegranate as now shown in Dunedin, is as large as a big apple, slightly ribbed—of a golden yellow colour. The inside is of. reddish seeds packed in a sweetish and subacid pulp, of a flavour somewhat akin to the grape.