TAXI CAPSIZES.
* BUSH WORKER KILLED, (PBKSS ASSOCIATION TELIGEAM.) GI.SBORNE, February 13. Shortly before 11 o'clock last night a laxi, driven by A, Littler, went over a bridge between Kaitoratahi and Tekaraka, and capsized into the bed of the creek, eight feet below. One passenger named Robert Scolt, aged 38 years, with no relatives in the Dominion, and employed as a bush worker at Terata station, TVhatatutu, was killed. Another passenger, Mrs Denton, a Maori woman, is now in hospital, with body injuries, which, so far as is known at present, are not serious. Two other men passengers and the driver, escaped with bruises.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18925, 14 February 1927, Page 8
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