On the Main road north 0f... XlppcP Hutt oil Wednesday,' a motor-car and a concrete telegraph post figured in a collision from which the car came out best. Travelling at a high speed towards Wellington, the ear struck the pole, which, although sunk five feet into the ground and reinforced with iron up the centre, was entirely up--ootetl and bent into .an "N" shape. The motorist proceeded "on his wTay with apparently only minor damage to his ear. Air travel is booming in Britain/ there « being a 50 per cent, increase on lost year's figures. Many special. 'planes are 'also being chartered to take passengers to Continental resorts.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 55, 14 September 1928, Page 3
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108Untitled Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 55, 14 September 1928, Page 3
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