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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 76, 9 March 1922, Page 6

“ It is the proud boast of British justice,” said Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., at the public reception to the Prime Minister, “that the law is no respecter of persons. In proof of that I will say that if Mr. Massey were to drive his car down flip wrong side of the road, the police will do their duty and I will promise to deal properly with him.” AV hat will rank as one of the world’s greatest feats is shortly to be begun in the building of the proposed bridge over the Detroit River between the old but rapidly growing Canadian city of AVindsor and Detroit, the industrial centre on the United States side of the border. The total length of the bridge proper will be 3703 feet, nearly threequarters of a mile, with a main sppn of LBO3 feet. There will be two decks, according to plans prepared. The upper deck will be built rst, and placed in operation while work is still proceeding on the lower deck. Press representatives on the East Coast tour with the Prime Mniister were disappointed at the loss of a possible personal and piquant paragraph aiient a hold-up en route to Tolaga. A story of the Prime Minister’s august personality, in shirtsleeves, assisting in extricating the equippage from temporary trouble would have been welcome, but alas! Mr. Massey’s previous trying experi-- 1 ences on rough roads had apparently steeled his heart, and it must be related that he took up a comfortable position on the roadside and looked on, while , beads of perspiration stood upon the brows of the drivers and the other male passengers.