REMARKABLE MISHAP

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 130, 26 February 1929, Page 9

REMARKABLE MISHAP

GIRL IN PRECARIOUS CONDITION Dominion Special Service. Auckland, February 25. A shocking accident while motoring occurred to Miss Lola Marcia Warn, aged 19 years, when on the road half way between Whakatane and Taneatua at midnight on Saturday. She now lies in the Whakatane Hospital iu a precarious condition, and is not expected to recover. Miss Warn was one of a party of seven who were driven to a picture theatre at Whakatane by George Kiddie, a taxidriver. After the pictures the party started on the return journey, the car bein- full. When they had gone about four miles they met a motor-lorry coming from the direction of Taneatua. It contained the gear of a roundabout, and was returning from the Opotiki Show. Frederick Edmund Willoughby, owner of the lorry, was driving. As the car and lorry passed Miss Warn was struck heavily with the pointed end of a tent pole. The driver of the motor-car did not realise that anything was amiss until one of the passengers told him that Miss Warn had been struck just below the shoulder, and was bleeding profusely. The girl was unconscious, and no time was lost in taking her to the hospital.. It was found that the point of the;pole had penetrated fully six inches. Miss Warn came from Waihi about a week ago to take up a position as waitress at the Taneatua Hotel. -