AM ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1920, Page 2

AM ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY.

'M.P.'s WEEK-END TRIP. Mr. G. Hunter, M.P., the Hon. W. H. Triggs, M.L.C., and Mrs Triggs, Mr. A. M'Nicol M.P., and Mr. 0. Hawkeu, M.P., and Mrs, Hawken, who had been spending the week-end in Hawke's Bay, returned to Wellington on Tuesday evening, after a somewhat adventurous journey. The party arrived at Woodville by train and found that the line had been blocked by a slip near Ashurst. They engaged two motor-cars, and travelled by road to Palmereton North. They found the road through the Manawatu Gorge "very slippery from the heavy rain, and obstructed in two or three placts by slips. It took the united strength of the men of the party at one point to move a rock that had fallen from the cliff. A fallen tree at another point presented even greater difficulty. The party reached Palmerston in time to catch a special train which had been dispatched from Marton to bring on passengers from Auckland, and arrived in Wellington without further mishap. When Hearing Ashurst the motorists saw the slip which had blooked the iine. Many passengers, men, women, and children, were standing in the rain with their luggage, having alighted from the Wellington train to await the armal of a train from Woodville that was to take them on to Napier. The river in the Gorge was higher than it has been for very many years.