A CAR JUMPS
AND I.ANDK IN IfIVKR. (Per Press Association —Copyright). PALMERSTON N., May 18. Leaving the roadway where Balianco bridge joins the Palmerston NorthWoodville main highway, an eight cylinder car apparently leaped over a chain in the air, and hit the bank of the Mauawatu river, nearly forty..feet below. It bounced and hit the hank - again, and finally came to rest in the flooded waterway) a few feet from the bank. When the accident was dis-Ju. covered ’this morning, l there was no\ trace of the driver. The door of the A wrecked car nqßt to the driver’s seat was open. Information received by the Woodvilie police from Wellington indicates the driver may be Victor Johnston, 38, a commercial traveller, employed Lv G. Amos and Co:. Ltd., hobderdashery of Wellington. Johnston is married with one child and resides at Island Bay. 1 Whether he was accompanied by others is unknown Search operations of the rivei' are proceeding.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1937, Page 6
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