TWO N.Z. NURSES KILLED IN CAR SMASH IN N.S.W.
SYDNEY, This Day (Rec. 9 a.m.).— Two New Zealand nursing sisters were among the five persons killed when a motor-car skidded on a bend and hit a tree on the Gwyder highway, 11 miles from Moree, northern New South Wales, early yesterday morning. The two nurses were Gwendoline Dorothea Godber, of MaUiatutu road, Te Puke, and Audrey Agnes Archibald, of Main street, Blenheim. Both were 26 years of age. They had been in Australia only six monthsand were returning to the Moree District Hospital, where they were employed, from the township of Gravesend, 25 miles away. * , , Sister Godber had been operated on for appendicitis last week and was discharged as a patient on Saturday. . The police believe the car skidded on loose gravel. It was found buckled against a tree, 400 feet from the road, and the wreckage had been thrown one hundred feet from the scene of the smash.
John Sutton, who is the sole survivor of the accident, was found still conscious a few feet from the wreck. He received fractured ribs and internal injuries.' His wife was killed in the accident.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 August 1949, Page 5
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