A train from Glenhope collided on the 23rd 'with a hawker's caravan on the combined railway bridge over the Motuoka Rivor at Tapawera. The driver of the caravan, named Wiate'rhouse. a returned soldier, jumped off and saved-himself by clinging to the side of the bridge. One horse was killed and the other injured. The oaravan was wrecked, and was carried a considerable distance by the locomotive.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3442, 2 March 1920, Page 29
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