TOWN IN DARKNESS
CAR HITS POWER POLE
TWO MEN INJURED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) i- BLENHEIM, This.Day. ' Blenheim was, in darkness for .20 minutes ,on Saturday night after a motor-car collided with a power pole in the suburb of Springlands. The collision, which was heard in town two miles away, shattered a 35-foot reinforced concrete pole in three places and shifted its base five feet. The hightension wires short-circuited. George Donald Dobson, aged 24, single, a miner, of • Mahakipawa, received head injuries, one eye being severely affected, and John Langdon, of Aniseed, suffered minor injuries. Both were taken to hospital, Mr. Langdon being discharged this morning: A motor-car driven by George Dale, of Auckland, who was accompanied by his wife, rolled nearly 100 yards down a steep hillside after leaving the road on a dangerous elbow bend on the Lion's" Back Hill, south of Seddon, on Saturday. , The car was practically wrecked. Mr. Dale had a collarbone fractured, and suffered concussion, and Mrs. Dale .suffered slight concussion and a wound on the face.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 85, 12 April 1937, Page 10
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172TOWN IN DARKNESS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 85, 12 April 1937, Page 10
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