LORRY ABLAZE
BACKED FROM DANGER. INTREPID DRIVER INJURED. (Special to "Northern Advocate.") OPOTIKI, Tiiis Day. A truck driver named Jock Lindsay received very severe burns on the face and on the firms while engaged in filling the petrol tank of a cream lorry at the Opotiki butter factory. The cause of the fire is not. known. When the flames broke out Air Lindsay pluckily jumped into the lorry, which was a valuable, new six-wheeler owned by Air Ruff, cream contractor, of Xukuhou, and backed the truck away from the bowser. After receiving attention the injured man was immediately conveyed to the Opotiki Public Hospital.
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Northern Advocate, 5 November 1932, Page 9
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104LORRY ABLAZE Northern Advocate, 5 November 1932, Page 9
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