BRICK WALL COLLAPSES.
[IJV TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Westport, Wednesday. At 8.15 a.m. to-day a brick wall of a building in course of erection in. Palmerstonstreet, Westport, collapsed, and smashed in almost a complete length of one side of the Westport Times office, a wooden ouilding. Several of the compositors had a narrow escape. Although some of the machinery waa covered by falling bricks, none of it appeared to b» damaged. It was raining heavily at the time of the accident, which the builders attribute to new mortar running.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13702, 19 March 1908, Page 5
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