Man Scalded When Car Backs Into Pie-Cart
For the first time in years. Cathedral square’s pie-cart did not sell its wares last evening. Reversing out of an alleyway at 5.58 pm- a car struck the pie-cart, jolting it forward two feet, and catching the proprietor, Mr T. R. Jordan, in a cascade of bottles, crockery, hot fat, and coffee.
Fat from the bacon-fryer spilled on the stove, sizzled, and filled the pie-cart with smoke.
Scalded on the legs by coffee, Mr Jordan was taken by St. John Ambulance to the Christchurch Hospital, treated, and sent home. His assistants were not injured. Fish, oysters, whitebait and all the other food sold by the pie-cart ended in the pig tin. Caught by a rush of customers. the pie-cart round the corner in Hereford street was sold out of mash and coffee by 10 p.m. •'We were just preparing to open,” Mr Jordan said. “I
was putting chips in the fryer when—crash—and stuff was going everywhere. There was an awful mess. Everything had to go in the pig tin.” After a “big cleaning job” the pie-cart would open this evening, Mr Jordan said.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29802, 19 April 1962, Page 12
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