CAR DESTROYED BY FIRE
DRIVER SLIGHTLY BURNED . j From Our Oirn Correspondent NEW PLYMOUTH, Today. » i A motor-car owned by Mr. W. A. j i Sprang, of Hawera, was destroyed by ; fire on the road between Eltham an 1 Hawera yesterday. Mr. Spragg was - driving alone toward Eltham and after , climbing a steep hill stopped to lill the = petrol tank at the rear. 2 Coming round again to the front of the car he found that flames w*re " springing up under the bonnet. He tried to get the chemical fire extinguisher from the car. but was burned * on the face and hands and had to drat. ' j back and watch the flames destroy :ha vehicle.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 848, 17 December 1929, Page 7
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