An extraordinary accident occurred a.t the Kara Bridge on the Main road at Shannon last Saturday morning. The 'bridge had given way on Friday evening and a, very substantial> barrier of 3 by fMnch planks ihad been placed on ft. Nevertheless a motorcyclist ran straight into' it, in 'broad daylight, knocking one of the heavy timbers flying. His machine' was a good deal damaged, but the rider miraculously escapied injury.
The construction is about to be gun of a seven-storeyed structure of modern flaits on one cf the highest portions of Wellington, in the north'ern residential quarter, at a cost of about £60,000.
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Shannon News, 29 January 1924, Page 3
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