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Wanganui Couriers driver Vance (Vinny) Repia yesterday lived up to the saying the newspaper will always get through, even though it was by ambulance. Mr Repia had just left Horopito Motors at 6.30pm and was driving south on State Highway Four when his van spun and landed on its side. He received minor injuries including cuts to his back from broken glass. The people from Horopito Motors were quickly on the scene and drove the van and Mr Repia to Waimarino Medical Centre where he was treated before being brought to Wanganui by ambulance. Also at the centre was Ruapehu Bulletin owner-editor Robert Milne visiting his wife and new born daughter. On learning of Mr Repia's accident, Mr Milne gave him the Ruapehu Bulletin's art work to take down to the Wanganui Chronicle to be published. " The art work is usually taken down by Wanganui Couriers and Vinny did us a big favour by taking it with him in the ambulance. I don't know how I would have got it down otherwise," Mr Milne said.
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 13, Issue 600, 22 August 1995, Page 6
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177Dedicated Courier Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 13, Issue 600, 22 August 1995, Page 6
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