SENSATIONAL RUNAWAY.
HORSES BOLT WITH LORRY. LADY MOTORISTS ESCAPE. |BX TELEGRAPH. —OWN CO-RESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON. Monday. Excitement was caused on the Wellington waterfront when two horses attached to a lorry, the property of Messrs. Munt, Cottrell and Co., bolted from the outer tee of the Queen's Wharf through heavy traffic until they were caught going up Molesworth Street. The lorry had been loaded at No. 4 shed with heavy case s of picture mouldings and when the driver was attending to the papers in connection with the cases the horses took fright. They dashed along the wharf at a great pace. *A young lady driving » light motor-car near the wharf gates was told by a wharf official with great presence of mind to drive on to the pavement. She had just got her car on to the footpath when the bolting team flew past. The horse s safely manoeuvred through the traffic along Custom House Quay, via Whitmora Street, and thence up Molesworth Street, where they slackened down owing to exhaustion on encountering the, hill.
To eye-witnesses it seemed almost miraculous that a collision did not occur.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18761, 15 July 1924, Page 6
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