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Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13653, 19 February 1913, Page 2 (Supplement)

The passengers oh the Takaka-Motu-oka mail coach had rather an-cxeiting experience recently whilst tra.versing tho road between Upper and Lower I'akaka. Tho coach was passing over that portion of tho road under which the. river disappears, when, without warning, one H' the horses h.ro !>■<■> the crust of the eiv'Vaud its logs <■.::>• k ;;it" a deep hole. T'-e- presence oi'.•■"•"'-ui n! tho driver (Mi-. I. Starncs) :>•■! •

Forioxis accident. As it ,w .".<;. it w.:: little, short *if a miracle that tbrv sninnil did not break one of its legs, for;on "- vestigation the. -.halo was fonncl to _ho several '■■ feet in" depth. After erecting a.warning/ post and .placing se-yorn] bonlde-rs iii tho hblevthe coadi J^sumed its journey to: Motuokix;^--' 'Star;'■' - \