POLE BLOWN OVER
FELL ACROSS TRAM LINE (Special to THE SUN) NAPIER, Friday. A pole carrying telephone wires and wire supports for the tramway overhead wires snapped off level with the ground in Napier to-day, and crashed across the road, narrowly missing a passing tramcar loaded with the lunchhour crowd. The pole was found to have rotted. It fell straight across the road, striking the overhead wires but not breaking them. The trolleypole on the car was damaged as it sprang upright on its sudden release. Business houses and residences on the seaward side of Hastings Street had their electric light and power cut off, and many telephone connections were interfered with. The damage was soon repaired.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 514, 17 November 1928, Page 1
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117POLE BLOWN OVER Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 514, 17 November 1928, Page 1
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