ROCK STRIKES HOUSE
CHILD'S NARROW ESCAPE TWO WALLS PIERCED To have a large and jagged rock come crashing through the rear wall of the house, career through the living room, find then pass through the wall on the other side of the room, was the unpleasant experience of Mrs. G. Norris, a resident of Clifton Hill, Monck's Bay, says a Christchurch newspaper. Her six-year-old son was playing in the room at the time, and the rock missed him by inches. The accident happened last Wednesday afternoon. Fully eighteen inches in diameter, tho rock had evidently been dislodged from tho roadway that runs along tho top of tho spur. Mrs. Norris' houso is a good way down the slope, and the rock had plenty of time in which to get up speed. It is thought that the rock must have been started by children playing by the roadside, or else that it was pushed off deliberately. It could not have started of its own accord, as there is a level space that runs from tho roadway to -the hill. There arc "no loose rocks on the hill itself.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21274, 30 August 1932, Page 10
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