PLUNGE DOWN A BANK
LORRY LADEN WITH MAILS DRIVER'S TEMPORARY ABSENCE [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] GISBORNE, Thursday Heavily laden with Christmas mails and freight, a Napier-Gisborne transIKirt lorry, which tho driver left for a few minutes to convey a message to tho operator of another vehicle, plunged over a 60ft. bank at Wharcarata, 27 miles from Gisborne, last night. Tho runaway lorry landed in a gully and was extensively damaged, but the mails and merchandise wero later salvaged. The driver had pulled up on a downhill grado and alighted to warn a fellow employee on tho south-bound mail run 6f tho greasy state of the road, on Morero Hill. The driver had walked only a short distance toward tho other lorry when his truck crashed through a fence and plunged down tho bank. A salvago crew worked hard to restore the badly damaged truck to the road. Tho loss of the lorry is serious, as tho mail and freight business is exceptionally heavy, and all units of the fleet are working at full capacity. •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23228, 23 December 1938, Page 10
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