MOTORING IN HAWKE’S BAY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 182, 17 July 1912, Page 3

MOTORING IN HAWKE’S BAY.

A VISITOR’S IMPRESSIONS This heinjr my first visit to the province of Hawke's Bay. 1 was naturally very much surprised to find the? great array of motor vehicles one .sees here every day. Almost everyone you meet is the proud possessor of a car or motot cycle, and my friends tell me that the recent scarcity of petrol has very ma teriaily decreased the number usually to be seen. If this is the case, well Hawke's Bay easily eclipses, for het population, any other district in the whole <>l the British Dominions.

And the greater number of die car; ire all of good reliable make. E.M.F. Flandcis and Mir.erva. not to meutiot in occasional Bayard and Humber, anc the Triumph and 8.5. A.. as in othet listricts, are all the i.nge, although the Indian seems to be taking on a bit. It was quite unnecessary tor me tc isk who had sold all these goods, a immediately J cairn* into Hastings wus conf routed by tli-* firm’s hug.* ad vertisement on the railway station, am on turning my head to see if there were any more ra,in clouds in the vicin tty of Tuki Tuki, their beautiful pre irises obscured my vision. So thev was nothing else for it but to pay : visit of inspection. From the know 'edge I have now acquired, 1 can not tell you all about the latest in Triumph 8.5. A., and Indian motor cycles, anc the-latest T.T. Triumph by all account must be a flier, and even the Indiai would have to get a move on to bea her. On glancing through the fit tin; shop, a large staff was busily engages, fitting up the latest Flanders am E.M.F. cars, and every one was sold having be -n Looked months ago. So to get delivery of one of these faniou ears it is necessary to book your orde as soon as possible. 1 have been in formed the firm have sold and deliverec 10 E.M.F. and Flanders cars durinj the last nine months, and they have a. present six orders in hand for the net model Silent Knight Minerva, am these cars represent the last word ii motor construction. I then had the pleasure cf a ride tc the firm’s workshop in, Havelock where I beheld the finest-appoiniec plant I have yet seen in th* colonies and I was at once struck with the enor moits amount of work in hand. Car of ail makes and siz*»s were undergo!n; thorough overhauls in the hands of ; most competent staff of mechanics. On glancing at my watch I discoverc* it was nearly lunch time, and we wei soon spinning swiftly homewards in th. silent E.M.F. Before saying good-bye 1 learned that this prograssive firm ha a 32-h.p. Conimer lorry landing in th course of a month or so. and they arealsi erecting a garage in Market street, anc as soon as these things come to pass vvt might as well say, “Good-bye, horse!’’*