Saturday, November 5, 2011

LORRY RUNS AWAY SMASHES INTO HOUSE

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. When Wong Kee yesterday left his motor-lorry in a street with tho engine running and tho 'u-akes applied it moved forward and ran down tho steep gradient of Lichfield road, Parnell. It crashed through a fence and struck the sido of Mr. D. A. Chinnery-Brown'a house at the corner of Glanvillo terrace. Tho fenco was smashed into splinters, and some of the weatherboards had to be removed before the vehicle could be oxtricated. The family was at home, and Mr. Chinnery-Brown was talking with his daughter in the room behind the damaged wall. No one was injured. When removed from the wreckage the lorry was driven away. Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 75, 30 March 1927, Page 10

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