STUCK IN A RIVER.
SERVICE CAR IMPERILLED
REFUGE ON THE HOOD
Horsepower represented by a team of six dray horses failed to extricate a Kaikoura, service car on Saturday from tho swollen flood! of the Greta. River, states a Christchurch correspondent. Net. until a traction engine was requisitioned did the car reach the opposite bank. When tho car stuck in the centre of tho swirling stream the passengers cltpibed to the upper deck, which, in this instance, was ’ represented by the hood, and there they stuck watching the steady rise of tho river until a horseman canto along and took them off one by one.
The state of the river held up traffic on Saturday, for tho bridge which was washed away in the May floods in 1923 has not been replaced. The river receded as quickly as it rose, however, and the service cars were despatched to Kaikourn.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16579, 7 November 1924, Page 9
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