MAIL CAR BURNT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 27 February 1924, Page 9

MAIL CAR BURNT.

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NELSON, Feb. ST. Hm ««itt tew from Westport to Nel4wn was burned on Bpooners- Range late yesterday afternoon. A scrub fire in a gully quickly ran up the KHflide, blocking rpnogress and cutting off retreat.. The flames swept across ifce xoad and caught car which, inetad-; nig «weu -mail Jiugs on the windward; sicie, was destroyed. Fortunately a| •mall patch on the roadside had teen previously burned, where passengers WHirihering- sixteen escaped from the 4ames. Bat for'tßie the consequeMeß Wom^ Jwre flbje^n root serious.