MAIL CAR BURNT.
SEVEN MAIL BAGS DESTROYED
[by telegraph—per press association.] NELSON. Feb. 27. Tho mail-car from Westport to Nelson was burned at Spooner’s Range late yesterday afternoon. A scrub lire in a gully quickly ran up the hillside blocking progress and cutting olf a retreat. The flames swept across the road and caught the car, which including seven mail hags ~ti the windward side, were destroyed. Fortllliateiv there was a small ■ patch “n the roadside previously burned where the passengers, numbering 16, escaped the flames. But for this, the consequencewould have been most serious.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1924, Page 3
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95MAIL CAR BURNT. Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1924, Page 3
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