RAILWAY YARD COMEDY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 110, 10 May 1923, Page 12

RAILWAY YARD COMEDY.

:l. v . ■ ~ . I LOaDDTG A MOTOR GAR.: On Wednesday afternoon the efforts of two. gentlemen to place a very large motor car on a truck irt the Hamilton railway yards caused considerable interest and aot-a'littte amusement-..The ear was run., on to the 'loading bank, tut took the law into its own 'hands and ran down the other. Bide, much to the peturbation of an interested spectator, who moved aside with more agility tfian dignity. The machine wae brought to. a standstill, but iwith mule-like stub- -; Dornnees absolutely refused -to start again, go the horse, had'to: be requisitioned to tow. it into position ' once , more. A small crowd .had by this time and. several spectators lenV. a . hand:to; get the.car on to"the;.trucK." Their efforts^ , however, were futile,.for although r^the , rear/. portion placed. ' ta'position-'the first part could not be •b satisfactorily manoeuvred. The §er•vices of the horee were once more . brought into operation and for an hour •all made various" and desperate e'nde'aveurs to attain the desired result, but the endeavours were unavailing.. Eventually a man with'a , tape measure discovered that the car was larger than - the' truck, whereupon a .railway official ' announced -with Solomonilike wisdom that a larger truck would be necessary. This, however, -was unobtainable until the next dfty,. so ( an ■ imposing-looking • though much-abused_ automobile 'was *#ewed home behind m horse and cart." ■