COACH MISHAP.
WASHED DOWN RIVES.
(Press Association.) TAIIIAPE, August 5
On Thursday afternoon the Tai-hape-Mangohane mail coach was washed down by a strong current while crossing the Rangitikei River with the mails. Mr. George Lord, a livery stable and taxi proprietor, was thrown out and sustained a fractured .collarbone. There were no passengers. The horses were got out and the coach is being salvaged to-day. The mails were saved uninjured.
A loan has been authorised for the erection of a-bridge-at this crossing on the Taihape-Napier Road.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 14728, 5 August 1921, Page 4
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86COACH MISHAP. Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 14728, 5 August 1921, Page 4
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