CAR FAILS TO CREEK
COLLAPSE OF BANK DRIVER KILLED—CROMWELL RESIDENT INJURED [Pan United Puess Association.] THAMES, January 22. As the result of a car going over a hank about midnight, about nine miles from Whitianga, Robert Stanley llobertson, a traveller for John Reid and Co., of Auckland, aged forty-five, a married man with four children, who was driver, was killed instantly, and his two companions were injured and sent to hospital at Mercury If ay. They were Leslie Jolly, of Cromwell, a married man, and Alfred Wilson, the licensee of the Tapu Hotel, also a married man. The condition of botli is serious.
The car was proceeding from Coromandel to Whitianga, and it is believed that the bank gave way and the car rolled over into the creek below, precipitating all the occupants into the water. ■
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Evening Star, Issue 21934, 22 January 1935, Page 8
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136CAR FAILS TO CREEK Evening Star, Issue 21934, 22 January 1935, Page 8
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