Taxi damaged, driver robbed
PA Auckland 1 A Point Chevalier taxidriver, Mr C. R. Manson, will long remember Friday even-; ing—he was robbed of $l2O and his car crashed through a (fence about the same time. Mr Manson had picked up a fare near a downtown ho-; tel and was taking him to a) (house in Kingsland Avenue,! Kingsland. When he was driving down the steep slope of Bond: Street from Great North (Road, his passenger, a man; aged about 30, suddenly; said, “I’ll have your money.”! Mr Manson, aged about 68.1 decided to make a fight of it.) (During the struggle, he jam-!
1 med on the hand brake and (the taxi stopped. The robber snatched the I 'money out of Mr Manson’s shirt pocket, opened the pas'isenger door, and ran up ' Bond Street. 1 : In spite of a bleeding nose, Mr Manson ran after the rob- ’ ber but lost him when he ’(turned right on to Great 1 North Road. ■ ■ But that was not the worst lof it — Mr Manson's taxi 1 had rolled down the hill, /bumped across a footpath, /and crashed through a fence t(on to a lawn in front of a (nearby house. ’l Four persons watching .'television in the house at the (time thought there had been an earthquake.
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Press, 3 May 1977, Page 4
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