ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
BOY STRUCK BY TRAM. When he alighted from an Opohohouud tram at the corner of Union street yesterday, Noel Beaufort, a schoolboy, aged 11, who resides at 34 Union street, was struck by a tram coming from Normanby. He walked around the rear of the Opoho tram and failed to notice the other. As a result of the blow from the tram he received concussion, and was admitted to the Hospital. . HAND LACERATED. Allan Darling, aged 20 years, residing with his parents at 488 Leith street, was admitted to the Public Hospital at 7.50 p.m. yesterday, suffering from lacerations to the left hand, received when he was stropping a razor at his home. ROAD SERVICE DRIVER KILLED. When a railways road services truck transporting fruit and general goods from Okaihnu railhead to Kaitain left the road on the north side of Mangamuka Gorge, about 12 miles south of Kaitaia, last night, the driver, George Marevieh, 47, married, was so badly injured that he died in the Kaitaia Public Hospital this morning. The truck fell 75ft, rolling over three times in the descent.—Whangarei Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 26138, 27 June 1947, Page 6
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