The floor of Mr. H. A. O'Gara's garage, corner of Napier and Hepburn Streets, last night (ell into a hole twenty-five feet deep by twelve feet wide, and his Chevrolet and Ford car*, worth about £400, were at the bottom when he went out this morning to load up his Christmas orders. The cause of the trouble was the collapse of a fifty-year-old sewer which drained the gully into Freeman's Bay. City Council workmen this morning rigged up a temporary derrick with which they fished up the cars from their strange hiding place. The hole was almost as regular as if it had been dug on purpose.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 305, 24 December 1926, Page 7
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107The floor of Mr. H. A. O'Gara's garage, corner of Napier and Hepburn Streets, last night (ell into a hole twenty-five feet deep by twelve feet wide, and his Chevrolet and Ford car*, worth about £400, were at the bottom when he went out this morning to load up his Christmas orders. The cause of the trouble was the collapse of a fifty-year-old sewer which drained the gully into Freeman's Bay. City Council workmen this morning rigged up a temporary derrick with which they fished up the cars from their strange hiding place. The hole was almost as regular as if it had been dug on purpose. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 305, 24 December 1926, Page 7
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