ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
CAR-DRIVER KILLED
VEHICLE PLUNGES DOWN HILL NEAR WANGANUI.
WANGANUI, Jan. 22
Shortly after 1 a.m. on Sunday a fivc-seater car driven by Waller Naughtou Grantham, aged 25, left the road a . mile and a-half on the Wanganui side of Kai Iwi and plunged down a hill. Mr. Grantham was thrown out and killed, the cause of his death being a broken neck. The owner of the car. Ah’. Stanley Joseph Ericksen, a Patea County Council surfaceman, residing at Moumahaki, was the only other occupant. He was thrown out, hut only slightly injured. Mr. Grantham, a former Flock House boy. was unemployoc. hut was to start as a shepherd to-morrow. It is understood that the only relative alive is his mother, living at Whitby. Hull. England.
Who pavs the hill for the injured? Consult the Standard Insurance Companv for full protection.—C. G. Bloore, ‘ chief agent. S. G. NortliP local mnnagw—(AHr+. >
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11842, 25 January 1933, Page 7
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