TOURISTS KILLED.
Former New Zealander In Coach Fatality.
NATIVE OF FEILDING
(Received 2 p.m.)
BRISBANE, this day.
A tourist coach containing 12 pas aingers overturned and fell down an embankment when approaching the tableland outside Cairns yesterday. A man and a woman were killed and eight persons were seriously injured. One of those killed was Mr. Ronald Joseph Beckley, 40, a native of Feilding, New Zealand, but who had been lately residing at Manly, Sydney. His mother, Mrs. Alice Beckley, was among 11 injured. It is believed that the edge of the embankment gave way and the car fell 40 feet. Five persons, including Mr. Beckley, were pinned under the upturned car.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 191, 15 August 1939, Page 9
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