RAILWAY VAN ON FIRE
VEHICLE BADLY DAMAGED (From Our Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, Friday, j A lire occurred in the early train, which runs from Auckland to Hamilton. causing it to be an hour late in arriving this morning. When the train was at Pukekohe the i guard noticed flumes issuing from the roof of a van. The outbreak was suppressed with a fire-extinguisher, but when the train got under way the wind caused the fire to break out again, and at Mercer the freight and mail-bags were removed to another van. Damage to the vehicle was fairly extensive.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 690, 15 June 1929, Page 13
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98RAILWAY VAN ON FIRE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 690, 15 June 1929, Page 13
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