PLUNGE DOWN BANK
LORRY LADEN WITH MAILS
(Special to thf "Evening Post."l
GISBC/RNE, December 22. Heavily laden with Christmas mails and freight, a Napier-Gisborne transport lorry, which the driver left for a few minutes to convey a message to the operator of another vehicle, plunged over a 60ft bank at Wharearata, 27 miles from Gisborne. last night. The'runaway lorry landed in a gully and was extensively damaged, but the mails and merchandise were later salvaged. „ , The driver had pulled upon a downhill grade and alighted to warn a fellow employee on the south-bound mail run of the greasy state of the road on. Morere Hill. The driver had walked only a short distance towards the other lorry when his truck crashed through a fence and plunged down the bank.
A salvage crew worked hard to restore the badly-damaged truck to th« road. The loss of the lorry is serious, as the mail and freight business is «* ceptionally heavy, and all units of th« fleet are working at full capacity*
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 10
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169PLUNGE DOWN BANK Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 10
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