MAORI CHIEF'S DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 22 March 1928, Page 20

MAORI CHIEF'S DEATH.

AFTER MOTOR OOIJJSIOI.

FALL FROM MOTOR LORRY.

(Bf Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

OPOTIKI, Wednesday.

An inquest concerning the death of tht Maori chief, Te Amaroa Tarau, as the result of injuries received in a motor accident on March 9, was held to-day before Mr. F. J. Short, acting corpner, and jury of four. :0

Thomas Sehvyn, driver of the which collided with a lorry on which Tarau was a passemrer, said he was going into Opotiki with Mr. Chapman, owner of - the car. When he was about to pass* the lorry the latter came over on its wrong side and collided with the car. The Inrry stopped, after the collision, on the wrong side of the road with its wheels on the grass. Both vehicles had lights.' He could not possibly have run over deceased.

E. Chapman, owner of the car, said it was travelling on its proper side of th« road.

Detersive McT.eod stated that at the Police Station Parkinson made a statement that he was driving the lorry at the time, but was unable to say how the accident happened.

The jury returned a verdict that deceased met his death by accident caused through injuries received by fall in? ofT a motor lorry driven by F. C. Parkin-