' A sensational experience befell, two men, Metsjsrs E. W. Stevens and J. Meech, on Thursday: afternoon, states a message from Pahiatiia. They left Wellington at 2.30’ o’clock on Thursday morning for Napier with a lorry loaded with furniture. Crossing ‘the Konini bridge on the main road a few miles from Pahiatua the old wooden structure collapsed ajjout/the centre. There was a drop of ten to twelve feet to the water, and it was rajning at the time, with the river in flood. The men in the cab of the’ lorry landed in the water, and had a narrow escape from drowning. They lost their own personal belongings in the cab, except a couple of small handbags. The lorry is resting partly on the collapsed structure apd partly submerged.
Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, For Coughs apd Colds never fails.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4979, 26 May 1926, Page 2
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138Page 2 Advertisements Column 7 Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4979, 26 May 1926, Page 2
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