MINISTERIAL CAR STUCK

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 68, 13 December 1938, Page 13

MINISTERIAL CAR STUCK

One of the few remaining creeks of any size unbridged on the Vest Coast side proved too much for a Ministerial car in the early hours of Saturday morning. The ear, which was conveying the Minister of Mines. Mr. Webb, and seven others, was almost across the creek, near Cass, when it stopped and sank into soft gravel up to its axles. Two of the party walked four miles back for assistance, and the owner of a lorry who finally brought them back and pulled the car free, after some difficulty, said that it was the third vehicle to be stuck in the creek in the last few hours. The mishap was the second in two days. The previous night the car had been stuck iij some unlighted road works near Runanga, and almost, it might be said, stuck as a result of the Government’s own generosity because the road works were part of an extensive drainage scheme, most of the money for which is being found by the State, largely on the recommendation of the member for the district—Mr. Webb.