DEATH OF MAORI
HIT BY PASSING CAR
(0.C.) WANGANUI, Wednesday. Struck by a car which is alleged to have faUed to stop, a Maori, Charlie Werata, aged between 30 and 35, was killed on the main road, about two miles north of Waverlev.
Werata, who lived at Waitotara and was emplo3ed at the Patea Freezing Works, was returning home at about 7.30 p.m., when the car he was driving was involved in a minor accident with another vehicle. Both cars stopped, and Werata was endeavouring to extricate hi-, vehicle when a car, travelling in a northerly, direction, knocked him down. " I
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 107, 8 May 1941, Page 5
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