A NARROW ESCAPE.
RUNAWAY STEAM ROLLER
BY TELEGRAPH press ASSOCIATION NAPIER, April 24." lJie Corporation steam roller got out of hanu lust evening while descending Shakespeare road. Owing to the pin Si IC+i h°K dS Lthe^, ear in mesh Skills, the brakes failed to hold, and the cumbersome roller gathered up a high speed. Wiien Hearing the bottom the roller swerved, and crashed into Nurse Jones cottage, carrying away the whole side of the house, and "pulling up in the front bedroom. The driver had a miraculous escape and a woman patient and her infant had been removed from the room only a couple ot hours before the mishap occurred
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 24 April 1914, Page 5
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110A NARROW ESCAPE. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 24 April 1914, Page 5
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