CAR BREAKS PLATEGLASS WINDOW
—> — to DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT 5.9 CPBESS IP.MMIt.) AUCKLAND, January 19. Damage estimated at £75 uto done by a motor-car which crashed into a large plate-glass window a * the premises of Messrs Greig «M Esterman, furnishers, of Ques street. The car had been left by *■* driver, Paymaster Lieutenant-Cos-mander J. K. Highton, parked abow Unity Hall, and, unoccupied, * moved off, running diagonally across Queen street. It mounted the fog: path, missing a telegraph -pole V a very small margin. x The right front wheel of the car crashed into the window. halLa which was knocked out, and fragments of glass, some of them of considerable size, were scattered along the pavement for about 20 J®” The window, which was eight ®w high and more than 15 feet was valued at £ 50, being msurßl with the South British Company. Further damage was done to US frame and various articles of niture on display in the windoj these being scratched by flying g™ B. The damage to the car was eto fined to the buckling of the w» guard and parking light on the side. .
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22305, 20 January 1938, Page 10
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