A Clever Bit of Work. Low Petrol and High Resource.

Progress, Volume IV, Issue 1, 2 November 1908, Page 26

A Clever Bit of Work. Low Petrol and High Resource.

Messrs. Trengrove, Howard Brothers, and Scott, were returning from Levin the other day, and found themselves at the steepest pinch of the Paekakariki hill in difficulties. The Decauville ear (16/20) came to a stop because the carburetter was left "high and dry in consequence of the low level of the petrol in the tank. For the moment there seemed no prospect of relief short of a long journey. But Mr. Trengrove was equal to the occasion. He unscrewed the tank plug and got one of his passengers to blow into the tank (connected a human pump, in fact), with the result that the carburetter filled at once and the engine started away to "work once more all right. The "passenger" in question states, we understand, that but for the intoxicating effect of the petrol fumes, he could see no reason why he should not undertake to blow the car from the bottom to the top of the tortuous and steep incline of the Paekakariki. It is a big "but." 4t* *v V* The coal supply of the Philippines has been found to be much larger than was anticipated and of a uniformly good character. It is stated that a large vein crosses the entire group of islands, and it has been clearly traced in one vicinity foi twenty-five milos.