SHOCKING MISHAP
SLIP COAIES down At
BLACK WATER
TWO WOMENS AND CHILD
killed
(Press -Association.)
WESTPORT,. June 11
An . accident whereby three people wer© killed occurred through a land slip at . Blackwater, Bullei Gorge, this evening.
The victims .were: Airs. Parker and infant daughter Airs. Parker’s ; mother, Mrs Southon.
, From the particulars available, All Parker, a, carrier, was coming down from Inangahua Junction, to Tiiroroa m liis motor lorry with his wife two children and Mrs. Southon and, to allow one of Gibbs’ cars from Nelson to pas-, through, pulled off to the .side of the road. Just then a big slip came away with a tre© on it and the tree caught the lorry, killing Airs. Southon,' Airs. Parker and infant daughter. Air. Barker got clear with some injuries and Air. Quinn, on the cm that; had passed, hearing the crash, went back and, with other assistance li.om the railway construction camp, rescued one child in a badly battered state and recovered th© bodies of the- three victims. These were subsequently brought on to "Westport arid the rescued child taken to the hospital.
Air. Parker .is in the medical hut at Tiroroa, suffering badly from shock.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10921, 12 June 1929, Page 5
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197SHOCKING MISHAP Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10921, 12 June 1929, Page 5
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