PRIME MINISTER HELD UP.
The Prime Minister and his party had an amusing experience during his motor car run from Hunua to Putamahoe recently. Many delays having occurred on the road, and being hours behind time, Sir Joseph was anxious to recover lost time, if possible, and run as near as possible to the hours fixed. Fate decreed otherwise. At the point indicated, the car came up with a bullock waggon, the autocrat of the road, on a hill where the passage is limited, with a bank on one side and a deep ravine on the other. “ It’s all right, lads,” yelled out the burly driver, in characteristic vernacular, “keep behind there; you can’t get past. Hold in for about five minutes.” His leaders were showing signs of nervousness. Now, then, if you pass, lads, and frighten these animals over the side, you’ll be paying me damages,” and this was emphasised by artistic flourishes of a formidable-looking whip used for infusing some activity into veteran bullock teams. Quite unconscious of the Prime Minister’s piesence, the bullock-driver freely offered other advice to “me lads” in the motor car, incidentally delaying the party down a hilly grade to the extent of half an hour or more.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 954, 14 February 1911, Page 4
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204PRIME MINISTER HELD UP. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 954, 14 February 1911, Page 4
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