MOTOR FATALITY.
WOMAN KILLED INSTANTLY. LORRY TURNS ON ITS SIDE. ACCIDENT NEAR TAUPO. (By Telegraph.—Own Corrnspondt-nt.) TAUPO, this day. A motoring fatality occurred here about three o'clock this morning by which Mrs. Laura Skeen, wife of Mr. Ernest Skeen, proprietor of the Majestic picture hall, Taupo, lost her life. Mrs. Skeen was returning from Napier on Mr. George Chase's motor lorry, which left the road a little on the Taupo side of the Terraces Hotel. Death was instantaneous. The lorry only turned on its side and was not damaged.
Mrs. Skeen's married daughter and her infant child was passengers, together wjth a Napier lady, a friend of the Skeen family, who was accompanying Mrs. Skeen to Taupo on a holiday visit. Neither the driver nor any of the others suffered injury. The accident cast a gloom over the neighbourhood, and great sympathy is felt for the bereaved husband and son and daughter.
The inquest was opened at the courthouse, Taupo, at 10 a.m. to-day before Mr. J. G. Laughton, district coroner. After evidence of identification had been taken the inquest was adjourned sine die.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 93, 20 April 1932, Page 8
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