CRASHED THROUGH HOUSE
LARGE BOULDER'S CAREER
WOMAN'S NARROW ESCAPE
When Mrs O. Stewart walked 1 out of one room of her bach at the Heads last Sunday afternoon,, she was terrified to hear a deafening crash immediately behind her and to see a huge boulder break through the Avail, bound into the room and smash its! way through all obstacles to the other side, where it lod&ed in the huge buckle made in the boarding.
The heavy downpour of rain had apparently dislodged the boulder which weighed the best part of two or three hundredweight and sent it hurtling down the cliff at the back of the house until it struck the house. In its progress through the room it made matchwood' of a wardrobe, a sofa and two chairs and ripped: a huge hole in the floorboards. Mrs Stewart who is still considerably disturbed by her experience states that she realises only too well the narrow escape she has"'hadi from very serious injury. Capitain Carey, the Harbourmaster, states that at one time on Sunday, he noticed the watei pouring over the cliffs at the Heads in great quantities) and there can be no doubt as to the cause of the accid'ent.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 8, 21 September 1943, Page 5
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202CRASHED THROUGH HOUSE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 8, 21 September 1943, Page 5
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