TWO INJURED ON WAY TO WEDDING
(P.A.) AUCKLAND. June 14. On their way to a wedding six people, including the bridegroom, escaped serious injury when the car in which they were travelling left the road and plunged into a gully near Rothesay on Saturday. In the car were Mr. Harold King, Kaipara Flats, his mother and father. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. King, and three others.
They were going from Kaipara Flats to a wedding at Otahuhu of Mr. Harold King to Miss A. D. Blue, Brown’s Bay. Mr. King, Sen., suffered two fractured ribs and shock and Mrs. King abrasions and shock. The other members of the party were uninjured. Coming round a corner the big car left the road, crashed through thick manuka scrub and came to rest at the bottom of a gully 100 yards from where it had left the road.
A farmer nearby summoned a doctor who treated the two injured persons. They were taken to the Auckland Hospital. The other four members of the party continued their journey by taxi. Before the injured could be removed from the gully a way had to be cleared through the manuka and steps cut in the clay bank by the farmer who was at the scene. The car was wrecked.
The wedding was held later on Saturday afternoon.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22663, 14 June 1948, Page 4
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