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A power pole in Hiccarton nearly fell on a shop last evening. The pole, on the corner of 1 Riccarton Road and Puriri Street, has a rotten base. - About 7.30 pm. the owner] of a dairy’ next to the pole heard a loud noise. “I thought it was thai
freezer at first but then Ip looked out and saw it was the pole," said Mr B. R.: Imrie, the shop owner. ' ' I' 1 “It has taken quite a few! knocks from cars just in the! .15 months we have been' | here,” Mr Imrie said. Riccarton Borough Council! linemen, who were on the I i acene soon after * p.m.,1
secured the pole against further collapse by tying it to a tower truck. The truck was lieft there overnight, and the I pole will be replaced this I morning. Power lines on the pole serve a part of Riccar.ton Road, but it is thought (that power will not have to ]be cut while the new pole is I installed.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34127, 13 April 1976, Page 22
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170Going, going.... propped Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34127, 13 April 1976, Page 22
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