ACCIDENT AVERTED.
MINISTER’S PROMPT ACTION.
“KNOWS SOMETHING ABOUT BULLOCKS.”
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AUCKLAND, January 16. The experience gained in the handling of bullock teams hj' the Hon. O. J. Hawken (Minister of Agriculture) in his early days, stood him and members of his party on tour in good stead this afternoon. When the foremost car, conveying the Minister, Mrs Hawken, Colonel Allen Bell (member for the Bay of Islands) and several others, was ascending the. steep and tortuous Takahue Saddle, it suddenly met a bullock truck round the corner of a narrow part of the track, where the bush vaHey sloped steeply away. Four beasts were loosely chained for the descent and not properly yoked to the pole. They at once became out of control. In order to prevent the possible forcing of the car over the road through the expected impact, the chauffeur put Jh© motor into 'Averse, intondi’ng to tack into the bank for safety, but the Minister, closely followed by Colonel Bell, jumped from the car and went to the head of the bullocks, checking them before anything more serious than a snapping of the truck pole had resulted. “I know something about bullocks,” he observed afterwards.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 82, 17 January 1928, Page 3
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