COLLAPSE OF A WALL.
Per Press Association. WESTPORT, March 18. At a quarter past eight this morning the brick wall of a building in course' of erection in Palmerston Street, Westport, 19ft high, collapsed and smashed in almost the complete length of one side of the Westport Times office, a wooden building. Several of the compositors had a very narrow escape from, serious accident. Although some of the machinery was covered by the falling bricks, none of it appeared to be damaged. It was raining heavily at the time of the accident, which the builders attribute to the new mortar running.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8537, 18 March 1908, Page 5
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101COLLAPSE OF A WALL. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8537, 18 March 1908, Page 5
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