ACCIDENT TO A CANDIDATE.
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PBESS ASSOCIATION.)
WAIROA, This Day. - Mr. lan< Simson, a candidate for the HawKes Bay seat, and Mr. O'Donoghue, secretary of the Liberal League, met with an accident on the Napier-Wairoa-road yesterday, between Waikare and Mohaka. Their car, driven by K. J. Smith, got into a rut, and the party .alighted to extricate it, but the steering gear sent it in the opposite direction, and the car went over a bank, making four somersaults, the driver hanging on to the wheel. When the car stopped, Smith was found under it. The engine" was still going. Smith is somewhat injured, and is confined to his bed. The party reached Mohaka after walking some miies, and later went to Wairoa by car, reaching there at 7.45 p.m. .. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ : .
. Mr. Simson speaks, at 8 p.m. to-mor-row. '■'.''
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 46, 22 February 1917, Page 8
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