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MOTOR-CYCLIST’S IMPACT WITH TREE DEATH OCCURS ON WAY TO HOSPITAL (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, March 15. Swerving into a tree at Ponsonby, a motor-cyclist, Thomas William Wells, of Grey Lynn, was killed on Saturday evening. Wells was riding up the road on his way home, when he hit the tree, receiving the full force of the impact on his head. He was taken to hospital in an ambulance, but was dead on arrival.. He was -a': married man, aged about ’36, with no children, and was employed as a storeman. BOY BELIEVED DROWNED DISAPPEARANCE FROM BEACH (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) - WANGANUI, March 15. Believed to have been drowned in .the sea near the Wanganui airport, a Wanganui Technical College student, Roy McGregor Dickey, aged 16. has been missing from his home on Durie Hill since Saturday night. He went to South Beach to collect shells for a fernery and early this morning a search party found his bicycle and clothes on the edge of the sand hills and footprints leading down to the water. The sea-bed in this locality is pitted with many deep holes, and the boy was a poor swimmer.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21733, 16 March 1936, Page 12
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