CAR OVER BANK
FALL OF 80 FEET
THREE OCCUPANTS HURT
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
OPOTIKI, This Day,
While returning from the opening of the new coast bridge about 6 o'clock last night a car, when negotiating a sharp Bend on the Maraenui Hill; left the road and dropped 80 feet. the three occupants were injured. They are Messrs. W. A. Joult, Opotiki, county chairman; W. Upton, county engineer; and J., TV Merry, county clerk. .
Ambulance stretchers were obtained from a Public Works camp and the men were brought to hospital suffering from concussion; cuts, and abrasions.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 8
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95CAR OVER BANK Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 8
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