LORRY MISHAP
■A Post and Telegraph Department lorry got into: difficulties in the grounds of Parliament House this morning, and had a narrow escape from serious consequences. Thedriver had pulled the vehicle, up with the hand brake near the Bowen street entrance to the Buildings, and was' conversing in the vestibule when hig attention was drawn to the lorry moving slowly on the.down grade. He ran outside to brake it harder, but there was another ear standing outside the dobr, and he; did not reach his 'lorry;in timo to prevent it running over the edge of the steep bank a.bove tho concrete fence; on the Bowen street frontage. Fprtunatqly it was pulled up by »tree qn the edg o fthe declivity, , otherwise serious damage might have been doifc. A gap of several feet tyas torn in the ;hedge, and a stout tree'waS badly shattered.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 16, 20 January 1928, Page 9
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