PREMIER DRIVES ENGINE.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3023, 18 August 1916, Page 4

PREMIER DRIVES ENGINE.

INCIDENT AT PANMURE

The unique sight of the Prime Mm- I ister driving a traction engine was furnished at the opening of the new ferro-concrete bridge over the Taniaki river, near Panmuro, on Monday. At the conclusion of the ceremony t v 1Q chairman of the proceedings, Mr jj It. Mackenzie, called upon Mr lV xasge y to drive the engine over the " D rid.rre He said that Mr Massey h? j { ] r jy|n engines across the old woor' iejl ll>r i Cl jT o several times in the days tjf his utll< Mr Massey promptly ac cea " e d to the request, and he piloted- the ponderous machine across the hr - d „ e with oaso showing that after tl* l 0 la * pse of over a couple of decades ,> ilis liand had not lost i its skill. Mr Massey's action was loudly cheered, r and tho impromptu conclusion y lO ceremony was greatly apprec " ated by tho crow d.