WENT UP IN SMOKE.
CHARABANC DESTROYED.
AFTER TAKING WRONG ROAD
A charabanc conveying the Grafton senior football. teanMo Waiuku on Saturday took the Wrong-Waiuku-Drury Road, via Glen brook—and was finally bogged near the Mauku biidge, and abandoned. : The members of the team, including A. E. Cooke, the All Black, were brought to Pukekohe, where they had refreshments and then caught the FranktonAuck 1 and- evening train for the city. They did not reach Waiuku '
Subsequently the charabanc, which was owned by Air J. L. Gunning, of Auckland,- was destroyed by fire, and on Sunday morning there remained very little of the conveyance except the iron frame. Strange to say there is still a quantity of benzine in the tank. if is understood ’ that as the result of (lie strain on the engine when efforts were made to get the motor on to a hard surface, that the big Ptid was knocked out of the engine. The origin of the fire is attributed to. some mechanical defect. Further particulars are not available.
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Franklin Times, Volume 14, Issue 260, 3 August 1925, Page 7
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171WENT UP IN SMOKE. Franklin Times, Volume 14, Issue 260, 3 August 1925, Page 7
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