Accident at the Gorge Ferry
♦ (PKB UNITED PBBBS ASSOCIATION.) Woodville, This Day. The punt at the Upper Ferry was washed away yesterday while crossing a flock of sheep, owing to the wire-rope breaking through the flooded state of the Manawatu River. The men on board were got off safely by a canoe aud by swimming. The sheep went ashore a mile south of the ferry. Traffic is consequently suspended between Woodville and Masterton, except that coach passengers are cro ised in a boat.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 4, 19 June 1884, Page 2
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