STRUCK TROUBLE
FROSTFISH SEARCHER'S CAR BURIED IN SAND Christchurch, Thursday. A motorist who decided to look for frostfish on the beach near Brooklands on Sunday came upon a heap of trouble. There were no frostfish. When he returned to his big six-cylinder car which he had driven on to the beach he found that the whepls had settled down over the bottom of the rims in the sand. He set the engine going and the exertions to extrieate the car caused it to settle more deeply and the sand was soon upj on to the running- ' boards. The motorist sought the aid of a man with horses, but the job was hopeless. The tide came in and the car sanlc deeper until the water swept over it. Yesterday the car was buried to the top of the doors, and the hood was wrecked by the thiee tides which swept over it before the car was got out. | A motor-car ambulance was used to extract the car from its bed of sand, but that was not accomplished without much digging, much planking and tackle, and the strenuous efforts of eight or nine men.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 313, 29 August 1932, Page 7
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192STRUCK TROUBLE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 313, 29 August 1932, Page 7
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