MOTOR LORRY FALLS 200 FEET
Opotiki, Yesterday
A motor lorry owned and driven by a man named Davcy, and laden with twelve hales of wool, left, the road on Mefemere Hill, on the Opo-tiki-Gisborne road, and fell a dist;ilice of over 200 feet, crashing through light hush to the creek below. The driver was thrown out. Ho struck his head on a hale of wool, hut his injuries are.not serious. Salvage work is difficult, owing to the precipitous gradient.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2337, 4 October 1921, Page 2
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79MOTOR LORRY FALLS 200 FEET Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2337, 4 October 1921, Page 2
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