SPLASHED WITH TAR
MOTHER AND BABY CLAIM FOR DAMAGES The baby and mother were both covered from head to foot with tar. This was the burden o£ a complaint made to the Mount Roskill Road Board last night by an aggrieved resident. He explained that his wife was walking along Cambrai Avenue when a pipe on the tarring machine burst, with the result that she was splashed from head to foot with tar, and both her clothes and the baby’s ruined. He claimed the value of the articles ruined, £5 2s. The engineer reported that he had examined the damaged articles and found them so badly splashed with bitumen as to render them unfit for wear. The trouble was caused by a pipe in the bitumen sprayer bursting. It also inflicted other injuries to the workmen. The board decided to pay up.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 285, 22 February 1928, Page 12
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142SPLASHED WITH TAR Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 285, 22 February 1928, Page 12
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