"UTTER CONFUSION"
! "I was amazed at the utter confusion | ! and the inconsiderate manner in which i j motorists behaved on the Rimutaka Hill,'* said one Wellington motorist who came through from Featherston, to a "Post" reporter today. "There was a complete riot of motor-cars. People were rushing about and running into , each other and cars became wedged against the banks. It was the most harrowing experience I have ever had." Motor-cars, he said, were parked two and sometimes three deep and practically no effort was made by drivers in the stationary cars to clear the way. for through motorists. Parents, he said, just sat in their cars and allowed their children to run hither and thither throwing snowballs at people in the cars that were trying to find a way through the congestion. The visibility was poor and the hill dangerous in the extreme. For a nervous passenger the journey was most harassine.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 26, 31 July 1939, Page 10
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153"UTTER CONFUSION" Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 26, 31 July 1939, Page 10
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