BY MOWER TO DUNEDIN
University Students Attempt A 16in motor-mbwer is to join the bedsteads and bathtubs being pushed along roads by students as part of their Capping Week activities. At 9 a.m. today students from Otago University will leave Cathedral square on a non-stop 230-mile journey Dunedin. They hope to arrive on Friday. The organiser of the party (Mr C. P. Bates) said the mower was given by Morrison Industries, Ltd., which was very interested to see how the machine would stand up to the test. An oil company was supplying fuel. The mower has been fitted with lights and it will be driven day and night. The full approval of the Transport Department has been obtained and the students hope they will not ’ interfere with traffic. The mower is not registered, as it is classed as 3 “pedestrian-controlled mower.” The students, in the faculty of technology, which is comprised of the mining, metallury and survey schools, think their effort will be a greater achievement than pushing a bedstead, which they consider is little more than “a test of brute strength.” “Ours will be a technological test,” said Mr Bates.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30125, 8 May 1963, Page 17
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