Ropiha ‘fairly well’
PA - Napier A former New Zealand Maori rugby league representative, Lance Ropiha, was yesterday reported "fairly well” in hospital after surgery on serious injuries received in a fatal car crash between Napier and Hastings on Saturday night. Ropiha, who went to Rarotonga with the New Zealand Maori side in 1986 and was this year a try-scoring member of the Central provinces team which played Wellington in Napier, received fractures to both legs and one hip. He was also in the Hawke’s Bay side which in May recorded the province’s first inter-provincial win in two years. He was one of three people in a car driven by the popular entertainer, Adrian Waretini, aged 28, who died in the head-on crash on a sweeping turn just north of the Femhill bridge.
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Press, 26 July 1989, Page 60
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