MAIL CAR BURNT.
PASSENGERS’ LHCKY ESCAPE. (Per United Press Association.) NELSON, February 27. The mail oar from Westport to Nelson was burned at Spooner's Range late yesterday afternoon. A scrub fire in the gully quickly ran up the hillside, blocking progress and cutting off the car’s retreat. The flames swept across the road and caught the car, which, including seven mail hags on the windward side, were destroyed. Fortunately a small patch on the roadside had been previously burned. The passengers, numbering 16. escaped from the flames at this spot, otherwise the consequences would have been very serious.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19107, 28 February 1924, Page 8
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98MAIL CAR BURNT. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19107, 28 February 1924, Page 8
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