STRUCK BY LORRY
MAORI BOY'S DEATH
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, April, 13.
Kay Tupe, a Maori boy aged seven, died' at. the.New Plymouth. Hospital'at 4.45: p.m., having received a .fracture of.i the skull when he was .sti-uck by a lorry on the main road, north,of Waitara, ,at 3.15 p.m. 'The boy's mother is also-a patient at the hospital.
Tupe was walking along the road with a European boy. They were carrying long strips of flax, which.they were apparently waving at. vehicles that .passed. : A lorry owned by W. Scott, Urenui, and driven by Ralph Grech, came past. The driver saw the children and continued his straight course.' What happened then, is not. definitely , known. Tupe apparentlywhipped the flax at the. lorry and either overbalanced or came too close, with- the result that he was - struck by. the floor of the lorry, which projects from the body. - . The driver was unaware that Tupe had :been struck until-a pedestrian further up the road drew his attention. The boy was taken.to hospital and died shortly after admission. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 88, 14 April 1934, Page 15
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175STRUCK BY LORRY Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 88, 14 April 1934, Page 15
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