SENSATIONAL RUNAWAY
INCIDENT AT WESTPORT.
(By Telegraph. —Press Association.) WESTPORT, Wednesday.
A sensational happening but fortunately unattended by serious accident occurred at about 5 o'clock to-night as children were streaming out of the Theatre Royal after witnessing the screening of the film "Glorious New Zealand." A grocer's horse and delivery cart bolted round an adjacent corner and came up the street close to the theatre. The children scattered in all directions.
The horse ran up on to the footpath and the shaft of the cart got caught in a fence and the horse broke free. A lad fell in front of the horse, but it stepped over him, and another lad, Henry Mackenzie, then got hold of the animal and retained his hold until the owner arrived on 'the scene and, led it away. The only damage done apart from the harness was the smashing of a verandah post.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1777, 1 July 1926, Page 5
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