MOTOR CAR DESTROYED.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, this day. Mr. John Duthie lost his new 14-16 • h.p. Argyle motor car by fire at Taita. ; The chauffeur was refilling the petrol tank by the light of a motor lamp, when y the petrol caught fire, and the car was . speedily ablaze. The chauffeur attempted to extinguish the flames by means of * hose, and getting too near, was overcome by the fumes of the petrol, and. had a narrow-escape of being burned to death.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 140, 12 June 1908, Page 4
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