Paper Runner!

Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 19603, 8 January 1936, Page 3

Paper Runner!

NEW PLYMOUTH'S MAYOR

ACTED AS EMERGENCY. NEWSBOY'S LOYALTY. Residents of New Plymouth on Saturday in one part may have noticed their evening papers a little later than usual, but still they had them delivered by no less a person than the town's first citizen and magistrate, the Mayor, Mr. E. K. C. Gilniour (says the ''Herald.") Prank Stuck, a 15-year-old newspaper runner, suddenly started across the road on his bicycle in the path of Mr. Gilmour's car. Despite a wide swerve by the latter the boy was struck and knocked to the ground, receiving a severy cut on the leg and another injury to the shoulder. His bicycle was badly dam-

aged. When he got up the boy’s first thought was of his newspapers. Ho was all right, he said, though blood was running from the wounds on his leg and his shouhjer, and lie said lie must see to the delivery of his papers. Lad Taken to Hospital. The Mayor would have none of this and took the bov off .to t ho Now Plymouth Hospital, where stitches were put in his leg and his shoulder. He made no fuss about the whole painful business. Mr. (lilmour then had to go to his home, but when lie returned to the hospital to see how the boy was getting along, he found him walking about and worrying where lie could borrow another bicycle to complete the delivery of bis papers. The Mayor of New Plymouth then became a paper runner. With Prank o-uiding him the / whole round was done in the Mayoral ear and the papers delivered. Mr. Gilmonr does not think ho will meet many finer types of boy than Prank Stuck. Though not serious, his injuries were painful, but be smiled through it all. Also, lie admitted that he was “in the wrong, as he gsjvn no signal.” On Sunday Mr. Gilmonr had a visit from the boy’s father, who came down to tell him that his bn\ was “worried because he thought Mi. Gilmonr would be worried about the accident.”