Too Much Risk.
The big Australian plane was landing in the Wairarapa district, and an old-timer was looking on. His memory got active and he declaimed to his cronies about the c:ld days. He said: “My first trip from Wellington to Masterton took twelve days. I was doing the carting with a dray and two horses, and when we got to the top of the range we took off the wheels .packed them on the dray, put on runners, and made a seldge of the turnout to pull it down to the flats. Then it had to be jacked up and the wheels put on again, and so we got here with supplies. After some years the train came, and it was only a matter of six or seven hours to do the journey. Then a grandson got hold of me one morning, planked me in his darned old car, and we got to Wellington in a couple of hours. My, didn’t he move, too! Now this thing comes up in almost as many minutes as it took me days. No, I won’t go up in it; it’s too much risk.” Too much risk for the man who, with two horses, pulled a dray down the mountain side.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20222, 5 February 1934, Page 6
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