EAST COAST SMASH.
DEATHS OF THREE MAORIS. VERDICT AT INQUEST. (By Telegraph.—Press Assoclntion.) WAIROA, Tuesday. The adjourned inquest concerning the deaths of three Maoris, Walter Watson, aged 48, a labourer, and his daughters. Tangi Watson, aged 12, and Caroline Watson, aged 15 months, who were fatally injured when the motor car in; which they were travelling collided with a motor lorry on the main Napier road, six miles from Wairoa, on January 5, was concluded to-day.
After a lengthy hearing the coroner, Mr. V. E. Winter, J.P.. returned a verdict that deceased met their deaths as the result of injuries received through a motor car collision.
The driver of the car, Mr. James Watson, who suffered a fracture of an arm, is still a patient in the Gisbornc Hospital.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 55, 6 March 1935, Page 10
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