MAORI BOY’S DEATH
STRUCK BY MOTOR-LORRY. [FEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] NEW PLYMOUTH, April 13. Ray Tupe, a Maori boy. aged seven years, died at New Plymouth Hospital at 4.45 p.m., having received a fracture of the skull when struck 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 apparently were waving at vehiicles that passed. A lorry, owned by W. Scott, of Urenui, and driven by Ralph Grech, came past. The driver saw the children. He continued his straight course. What happened then is not definitely known. Tupe, apparently, whipped 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 to it. The boy was removed to the hospital, and died shortly after admission.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 April 1934, Page 11
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