A punga tree growing 20 feet below the road level saved the life ol an Inglewood resident who was negotiating the Tarata zig-zag. Driving his motor-truck near the tCf», th e front wheels went too near to the edge and the lorry and the driver plunged over the top of the steep cliff, where there is a sheer drop ot 200 feet. The'striking of the punga tree broke the fall of the vehicle as it commenced its h rs t mad career. Ft hung for a fraction of second and then crashed down the cliff, but the fall was not nearly a P serious as it might have been for the driver,' who was only severely shaken. The body of the truck was bent and broken, and the hood wn.s torn off,
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11493, 21 November 1931, Page 6
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