RUNAWAY TRAMCAR
SMASHES INTO A HOTEL. THE BUILDING PARTIALLY WRECKED. . . ; . ; . PASSENGERS ESCAPE UNINJURED., [pee prkss association.] AUCKLAND; TJiis Day. . , About .'midnight a train going down a rather steep gradient on the Khyber Pass Road got cut of control, left the rails, and crashed into an alleyway between the 'Savings ■, Bank and' an hotel in Newmarket. It contained five passengers', but all . escaped uninjured'. Motorinan Halley stuck' to hisi post and was cut about ■ tire face, but walked to a doctor's residence. ; Part of the outer? Avail of the hotel. . was' torn »#way' an 4 tho" remainder qf : -J: the "wall ..knocked /out of the perpen-: * dicular. -The private -bar was . com-."■ pletely.; wrecked /and the , stock and J£ some of the overhead werer; considerably dainaged. These rooms, v were not occupied. ■.....,, , ...,, .'. proplie'tor.:,, l wasi , thrown out of btd in a room at the ' back'of the pr.eriiises,lalnd a boarder who-occupied another bedroom was also thrown out of bed'. ■ The bank,' which waft built of brick, was damaged to. a slight extent. The' ' tramcar was badly damaged.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 February 1917, Page 2
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