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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4597, 13 August 1923, Page 4

A story of a stock agent’s wild ride in a motor car drawn by four galloping bullocks comes from the East Coast. A Te Araroa dealer was on his way to town for the races at Gisborne, and when approaching Tolaga Bay got bogged on the other side of the Mangatuna bridge. The services of a draught horse failed to shift the car, and a couple of span of young oxen were hitched tp the machine. ‘At the rear of the engine, however, the animals became panicky, and they pulled the car at a hand gallop round the small flat. Three or four circuits of the flat were made, the motorist desperately guiding his machine around stumps and deep hollows, while the lad who was to have driven the bullocks urged him excitedly to jump for his life, as the car appeared doomed to be hurled over the bank into the river. The motorist, however, placed morp reliance on the advice of an elder man, who,, from the saddle of his horse, yelled to him to ” stick to the ship.’’ Finally the bullocks were turned across the bridge, and the rise on the other side exhausted their energy.

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