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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, JULY

2. 1927.

DEVICE TO PREVENT MUD SPLASHING.

LAST OF WAR

Observera at Washington the repost of the remainin por cons war tax on automo the coming session of Cong is boliaved this will ho a strategy on the part of po to keep the present "admini in power,.

MILLIONS IN DAM

The Mississippi floor wi the highway departments varions states affected milf dollars to replace the road bridgesdamaged. Missouri reports a loss of a million only the first two weeks. flood.

Thoroughbred Action

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Made in all standard and millimeter .sizes.

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A Studebaker "President" e ar fitted with a novel arrangement to prevent splashing..

RUNNING OVER SNAKES.

[By Michel Terry, F.R.A.I.]

When the news came through that the Royal visitors had yun over a poisonous snake in their motor ear, 1, at once realized the lucky escape they had bad.

The risk for them lay not so much in the actual killing of the reptile, as in the risky predicament in which the occupants of the car might have found themselves long hefore, the driver had pulled pp. For one of the most silly prac tices one can indulge in is to try. to run over a snake as one speeds along a bush track?

During the heat of the 'tay when the leaves hang still and lifelosa on the limbs of the gun trees, es- pecially during the watter portion of the year, it is no uncommon experience in the day's run to see at least one.snake coiled" up in the roadway, taking its sunbathi..

Ha! you think, here's whoře we rid the world of a post. -You spoed up and steer straight for the horrible thing. It uncoils it- self, straightening out as it slithers towards the, safety of the bush. You steep a bit, more to one side, and before you can think it has disappeared beneath your mud- guards, out of sight. Out bf mind, you think-oh, no!

What has happened on many oc- ensions has actually happened to me twire-so I know. Only tool casily you misjudge your distance, and the wheel runs over the ack portion of the snake, making it. rear up: at the same time the wheel casts it up from the road and before you can say knife it is facross the bonnet or even inside the

car!

During 1920 I was riding in a large service car, from Grafton to Glen innies in northern New South.) Wales lling half asleep a the back seat. Suddenly I was, rule- ly awakened by something losg and black thrashing about on the [running board, not a couple of feet from my head. And the thing was a black snake six feet long. second only for its deadliness to the tiger snake the duke escaped from..

Fully awake in a flash, I made for the far corner of that seat like greased lightning. The driv er slapped on the brakes as hard as possible, for the snake had got entangled in some luggage strap- ped beside the body. Directly we skidded to a halt in the dust every- one bundled out the car and rushed to the trees for sticks, and banged the snake to u pulp on the roadside in a jify."

My other experience was in Western Australia. Two of us were on a long journey-I was having my spell from driving and slacking in comfort in the back beneath the shade of the hood, for; the day was hot. Suddenly my companion called out a warning, and eyen 'ns he did so, something long and sinuous slapped against the wind screen and landed with a thump-oli, no, not on the running board this time, but, horror upon horrors, actually in the back of the car with me!

Like a cat-burglar making his getaway, I nlang myself out of that back seat with an agility I have never discovered since. Hanging on to the running board in com- parative safety, tripping the hood stays, till the car elowed, I slip- ped off on to the hard, comfort ing rond as soon as I dared. Nor whe the driver slow in leaving the unwelcome arrival in sole posses-" sion of our automobile.

Sticks being, unfortunately, not handy while one kept watch that the snake was not coming up out! of his rofuge, we pulled the jack

AFTER FIVE YEARS, only 9 per cent. Its original price, first year of use, has a value of handle out of the tool box on the

anys Col. Leonard P. Ayres, Cle- 52 per cent. its orginal price. His side of the car. We seized ani valand. Of 18 cars he tabulated estimates of depreciation the first xc, also, and then proceeded to

cent, of the ear's original value, our car.

Average Car's Value: the lowest was & per cont., and the year, range from a drop to 36 per make mincement of the tenant of

The average, car that has run highest 17 per cent. five years has a market value of The average new car, after its up to one of 63 per cent.

So you can see that there inust

be some kindly fate watching over! bit different, there might easily the Duke and the Duchess, for had have been urgent need for the knife things been just the tiniest little and potassium permanganate.-E.

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