MOTOR FATALITIES
PAEKAKARIKI SMASH
MOTOR-CYCLIST KILLED
William Joseph Michael Pearce, who was killed instantaneously when the motor-cycle he was riding came into collision with a motor-car driven by Mr. Robert Barnes Gibbons, of Khandallah, on the main highway about a quarter of a mile north of the Pae- j ikakariki School, at 10.15 o'clock on Saturday morning, was a single man, j 36 years of age, residing at Levin. He | was employed as a clerk in the Levin j [ office of the Native Affaire Department. The late Mr. Pearce was proceeding north on h?3 motor-cycle, and Mr. Gibbons, who was accompanied in the motor-car by his daughter, was travelling in the opposite direction. The car was extensively damaged on one side, but the motor-cycle escaped serious damage. Neither passenger in the motor-car was injured. An inquest will be held. Mrs. M. Pearce, of Brooklyn is the mother of the late Mr. Pearce, and Mrs. M. St. Clair, of Khandallah, is a sister. • .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 44, 21 August 1939, Page 11
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162MOTOR FATALITIES Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 44, 21 August 1939, Page 11
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