MOTOR-CAR RUNS WILD
DRIVER LATER ARRESTED
P7’Gss Association WANGANUI, Thursday. About 8.30 this evening, a motorcar in reverse gear backed along the kerb beside the footpath in Victoria Avenue and brought down several verandah posts with a, loud crash, the verandahs collapsing on to the footpath. Tho car then backed across the street, and hit a dividing wall between two shops. The next move was to return across the street, the car finally coming to rest against another verandah post. •v . Ca L r not vet *y much damaged, but 60ft of verandah collapsed. No passers-by were injured. , ® ea . ted * n the front seat of the car was, Joseph I<. K. Legge, of Gisborne who was later charged at the police station with unlawfully converting to his own use a car belonging to William A. E. Lowry, of Huntervilie.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 985, 30 May 1930, Page 18
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139MOTOR-CAR RUNS WILD Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 985, 30 May 1930, Page 18
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