BARROW PUSHER
INCIDENTS IN BRITAIN OLD MAN'S EXPERIENCES ACCIDENT STOPS JOURNEY (Received September 9, 6.45 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 9 The pushing of barrows is apparently more dangerous in Britain than in Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Joseph Dawson, aged 7/5, has bepm a third attempt to push a barrow 240 miles to Blackpool, Lancashire, for a wager of £SO. On the first attempt Mr. Dawson was mistaken for an escaped prisoner and was detained. On the second effort he was averaging 40 miles a day when a motor-car knocked him over a fence and wrecked the barrow.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22210, 10 September 1935, Page 9
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