A NARROW ESCAPE
POLE FALLS INTO STREET,
One of the three 18ft flagpoles on the top of C. Smith's building in Cuba street snapped off at the base and crashed down into the atreet early this afternoon. The pole carried away two electric light wires, and fell heavily on to one of the tramway overhead power lines before coming to rest near the pavement. A constable who was stand' ing outside the shop had a narrow escape from injury, as the pole landed only a foot or two away from him. The damage to the wires was repaired, and the pole was removed without delay to traffic. (
It is understood that the other flagpoles are to b& removed so as to avoid the possibility of their coming down also and causing serious injury; to passers-by;, . - ' ;
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1933, Page 8
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135A NARROW ESCAPE Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1933, Page 8
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