DEAD WOMAN AT WHEEL

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 211, 7 September 1925, Page 7

DEAD WOMAN AT WHEEL

{ MOTOR CAR OVER BANK. ' ; THREE PASSENGERS SAFE. i . Ke-.-ivci v noun.. SYDNEY, this day. Three [jasfengers in a motor car. tlie j woman driver of which was dead, had a j remarkable escape from serious injury J when the car plunged over an embank- : ment on the Windsor Road. j Indication* point to the woman iiaviug ■ been dead for some minutes before the ! accident. The car was driven by Fanny Eliza- , both Bowman, aged 42. who conducted a j car-hiring business, near Windsor. , has been under medical treatment I i\>r heart trouhlo.— (A. and N.Z. Cable ALGARSSO'N'S ADVENTURES. THE MOTOR SHIP ISLAND. ENGINES DISABLED. ! OSLO, S«jjtetalx-r ii. i , plain t-'reiiir AlgarSson's jnotor ■ ?iiip Island was discovered partially di*jableu by eugine trouble off Vii-toria. .! laud a month a.yi>. I Aei-ordiii-r t<. the paper •Aiieiipost.' , j Captain Algarsson declined an olVer of

help from tin- Italian exploration t-lii;j ' ,Quest, stating that lie was determined lo attempt to make land under sail, but ' J last weok he was sighted in almost the ' same spol. Captain I-Vieiii. inu-tiT of the Quest, I expresses the opinion thai t apta.ii) ; Alpfftlssuii's equipment and personnel are ' iuadequate for Arctic work, lie says ,l!uu thi! -!>a>oii i- mi present very I [ Severe. ; • Cdptaili Algftrsson origiuallv intended ito make an aeroplane expedition to the jXurth Pole, but he abandoned liis idea !in favour of carrying out aden title work 1 lin the vicinity nf Spitsbergen.—i A. and; ; 5.7.. i nhle.)