HOUSE DAMAGED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 409, 19 December 1932, Page 5

HOUSE DAMAGED

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LORRY RUNS BACKWARD DOWN HILL AND CRASHES INTO DWELLING AUCKLAND ACCIDENT

By Telegraph — Copyright).

Auckland, Saturday. To liear a crash at the front of th'e " house while she was working at the back, and to find, on inspection, that the rear of a heavy lorry was wedged securely in the front door, was the experience of Mrs. W. Harris, of 28 Spring Street, this morning. A lorry, one of the Vacuum Oil Company's, was going up Spring Street, and, when climbing th'e steep poi'tion just outside the house where Mrs. Harris lives, it suddenly ran back and crasbsd into the front of the dwelling. One corner of the front room was earried completely away, and th'e main upright beam was snapped like a match. The woodwork was torn and twisted, and some of the boarding was splintered. The wallpaper was all that remained to prevent people in the street outside from looking right into the room if they had so wished. One side of the front door is no longer there, and the door leading into the room from the passage is all awry. A chair in the room was brokan and one of the pieces thrown into the rear of the house. Pictures were thrown from the walls, though the glass in the front door was not hroken, and only one pane of glass in the room's windows.

The house is slightly below the level of the road and one. of the rear wheels of the vehicle ran over the verandah, splintering the flooring and breaking the railing into firewood lengths. The cargo of the lorry yras drums of turpentine, :so Mrs. Harris , said, and one of them came to rest neatly just outside the front door. "I got a terrible shock," said Mrs. Harris, "when I heard the crash. Th'e whole house shook. I thought it must be the lorry, because I h'eard it groaning as it passed. x have seen too many try to take the hill and then have to back down and take some other road, less steep." ^