YOUNG FARMER KILLED.
ACCEPTED "LIFT" IN CAR.
FATAL SKID AND CAPSIZE.
EMPLOYEE INJURED.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
TE AWAMUTU, this day,
Maurice Rhodes, a farmer, of Ngahape, was killed to-day in a motor accident on the Main South Road about six miles south of Te Awamutu.
With an employee named Sampson, Rhodes left his farm in a motor truck. After going a few miles he stopped the truck because of a punctured tyre. Not having a spare tyre the men abandoned the truck and accepted a ride in a car driven by Mr. G. Bell. They had not gone half a mile wTien the car skidded in metal, ran to the side of the road, and fell over a slight embankment.
Rhodes' skull was fractured, the left side of his chest was crushed and his ribs were broken. He died a few minutes after he had been admitted to a private hospital in Te Awamutu. Sampson had an ankle joint sprained. Bell was not hurt.
Rhodes, whose parents reside in Otoroi M§ a ' WaS a Dlarried man with one child, aged five years. He was twentynve years old.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 248, 19 October 1928, Page 8
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