An alarming sight met Uie eye of motorists returning from the Ilawcra Show one night last week, a Morris-Oxford car having overturned into a creek near Kakaramea. The occupants, a lady and a man, came out without injury, though how they escaped drowning was a mystery to all who saw the car, which was half submerged. This, however, did not hamper the operations of roaa “pirates” (the Wanganui Chronicle remarks) who systematically looted the damaged automobile.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3775, 20 July 1926, Page 61
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