“FIRST-AID.”
NOVEL, BUT EFFECTIVE
POWDER AND CHEWING GUM. HELP FOR A MOTORIST. Face powder and chewing gum, thanks to a quick-thinking colleague, solved the first-aid problem for a New Plymouth golfer during last week-end. After visiting a country club lie re' turned to his car, and finding a fiat tyre, proceeded to change the wheel. However, just as the wheel was raised sufficiently off the ground the jack slipped, sprung from beneath the axle, struck tho owner on the side of tho face and rebounded on to the radiator, making a neat but disconcerting puncture.
Another New Plymouth visitor, seeing the predicament, borrowed a woman’s vanity ease and successfully smothered the wound on the victim’s face with powder. He then turned his attention to the thin stream of water running from the radiator, and distributed packets of chewing gum among the onlookers, asking them to chew as rapidly as possible. The gum was then placed in the punctured radiator and car and driver were able to go on their way little the worse for the incident.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20420, 23 September 1938, Page 3
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