COUPLE'S NARROW ESCAPE
ENVELOPED BY GAS CAR RUNS INTO HOUSE BELIEVED TO BE 'QUAKE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Dropping off to sleep again after being awakened by the noise of a motor car crashing into the side of their house, an elderly couple awoke later to find themselves enveloped by gas which was escaping from a cooker downstairs. The mishap occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Carroll, Colombo street. An unattended motor car, which had been left with the brake on 100yds. further up the hill, moved backwards, and gathering speed rapidly struck the side of the building, which borders the footpath. Part of the wall was pushed in and a door inside the dwelling was wrenched from its hinges. A gas cooker wfts-'torh-'-fronv its- fittings- and thrown into the centre of the kitchen, enabling the gas to escape freely. Mr. Carroll said later that he and his wife thought there had been an earthquake. Had they been sleeping downstairs, he believed that they would have been overwhelmed by gas.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19131, 28 September 1936, Page 5
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