JEEP FATALITY
NURSES HURLED TO BEACH (P.A.) AUCKLAND, January 0. Two nurses were injured, one fatally, when a jeep in which they were riding struck a stone wall on the seaward side of the waterfront road near the Kohimarama wharf about 10 o'clock last night. They were Miss Aleida Johanna Barbara, Bonnie Smit. aged 22, of Point Chevalier, who died in hospital, and Miss Ami Maud Alpiu, aged 24, of Charles street, Napier, who suffered concussion and facial injuries, and was in a serious condition to-day.
When the jeep struck the wall both nurses were thrown on to the hard' stone beach loft below. The three other occupants of the jeep,, including the driver, were not injured.., as' the vehicle skidded alongside the wall aiiil swung back' $o the road.
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Evening Star, Issue 25067, 7 January 1944, Page 2
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130JEEP FATALITY Evening Star, Issue 25067, 7 January 1944, Page 2
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