Ex-Flock House Boy Killed in Motor Smash
WAS TO HAVE STARTED WORK TO-DAY AFTER BEING UNEMPLOYED.
Per Press Association WANGANUI, Last Night. Shortly after one a.m. on Sunday, a five-seatcr car driven by AValter Naughton Grantham, aged about 25, left the road a milo and a-half on the Wanganui side of Kai Iwi and plunged downhill with the result that Grantham was thrown out and killed. The cause of death was a broken neck. The owner of the car, Stanley Joseph Eriksen, a Patea County Council surfaceman residing at Moumahaki, was the only other occupant, and was thrown out, but only slightly hurt. Grantham Avas a former Flock House boy. Ho was unemployed but Avas to have started as a shepherd to-morrow. It is understood the only relative alive is his mother living at Whitby, Hull, England.
Deceased was trained at Flock Houso about 1925 in ono of the early draft of boys from Home, which were brougnt out under the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Acknowledgment of Debt to British Seamen Fund.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7062, 23 January 1933, Page 6
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