BUS LEAVES ROAD
Six Injured
(N.2f. Press Association) • ROTORUA, Sept. 2.
Six people were admitted to the Rotorua Hospital yesterday morning after a bus in which they were travelling left the road and crashed into a ditch at Rotoiti. Those admitted to hospital were:
Mrs Ada King, aged 25, concussion; Mrs Margaret Taia, aged 30, concussion and lacerated scalp: William Pokai, aged 28. concussion; Donald Ta ini, aged 24, concussion and lacerations; Johnny Taini. aged 2j weeks, fractured skull; and Abe Hiini, concussion.
The bus, driven by Mrs Polly Ngahee, is owned by Amery Transport, and was returning to Rotoiti from Mangakino. It is believed a passenger in the bus bumped the driver, who lost control
Men’s capacities have never been measured: nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried.—Thoreau.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30226, 3 September 1963, Page 14
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