FOOTBALLERS UPSET
CAR GOES OVER BANK UNION PRESIDENT HURT Press Association GREYMOUTH. Today.
A motor-car containing Coast footballers who were returning from the Nelson Shield match met with a mishap yesterday near Reef ton. The car skidded over a bank of the river and caught in the trees and overturned. The occupants were pinned underneath for several minutes and the petrol tank burst, but the petrol did not ignite. Mr. Alan Adams, president of the New Zealand Rugby Union, received a fractured hand, but nobody else was injured.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 727, 29 July 1929, Page 11
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