ROAD ENGINE.
Sir, —-It sometimes happens that a word lightly spoken turns out afterwards to be worthy of serious consideration : thus your correspondent, who jestingly wrote in a late issue respecting our probable want of the “ T.8.G.” or Auckland Road Engine, may, possibly, have made a very useful suggestion. If the utility of the Engine at all comes near the recommendations given of it, it would be the very thing for some years to come for our long lines of level, soft roads, and sandy beaches, saving expense of tramway, aud facilitating the macadamization of the roads. There is no other part of the Province of Auckland for which a locomotive of the kind is so adapted, and the “ T.8.G.,” would, in all probability, be easily obtained under all the circumstances. It is lumber where it is ; an eye and heart sore to the Provincial Council, and the late Superintendent, Mr. T. B. Gillies, in particular. Perhaps the matter may be entertained in the proper quarter, on this hint.—Yours, fcc., Viator.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 218, 31 October 1874, Page 2
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171ROAD ENGINE. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 218, 31 October 1874, Page 2
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