SUNNYTHORPE.
(FKOM Oun Own Cobkespondent.)
A serious wash-out took place on in > liuunyth.orpc-Feildiug- voud last night. Tl ■■■ Manga one stream had Hooded and there was a wash-out of .some, ten feet. l>:m spun of the bridge is down. Nothirfg was known of the condition of the- road until about eleven o’clock, when Mr G. U. Donald, who was returning home in his car from Paliiatua, ran into the stream. Ii was a dark night and the ear went head down, but by a marvellous piece of luck Mr Donald got free, from the ear. The si ream being in high flood, he was carried down some distance before he was able to reach Ihe bank; and fortunately escaped with a good drenching. The ear was badly damaged and now lies in the bed of the Mangaone. Mr Donald went for assistance, but it was found impossible to remove the ear. A number of residents endeavoured to gee the car up the bank, which gave way. Mr 0. Mahno fell into the stream and had it narrow escape of being drowned.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1017, 9 November 1917, Page 3
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