Two Moerewa Men Killed; A Third Injured

Northern Advocate, 3 January 1939, Page 6

Two Moerewa Men Killed; A Third Injured

[Special to “Northern Advocate ”] ’ ( NAPIER, This Day. The deaths of two motorists were caused by a, fall of 250 ft. on to another portion of a tortuous road on which they were travelling between Napier and. Taupo, while another had a remarkable escape from serious injury. The three men concerned, were all meat inspectors employed by the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company at Moerewa, Northland. The accident occurred at 6.45 o’clock on Sunday night on the Turangakumu Hill, 45 miles from Napier. The victims are.- 1 : ' Killed. Mr William Kennetfc Weir, aged 29, single, Montrose' Street, Sydenham, Christchurch. Mr Kenneth Samuel Mack, wider 30, Tinakori' Road, Wellington. Injured. . Mr Cedric Hogan, a young hian, 99 Main South Road, Riccartoh,; Christchurch. Condition not serious. -■Details of The Tragedy. The containing the three men had just commenced to come down With Mr Weir driving, when they '.he Turangakumu Hill toward Taupo, parsed another car on a bend. The car left the; pad and fell down a cliff onito the road below. It somersaulted three times during the fall. Mr Hogan was; thrown through the fabric roof the. first time it fell over, but Mr Weir and Mr Mack were not thrown out until the car hit the road after which it fell another 25 feet. The , car was owned by Mr Hogan, and he had given the wheel over to Mr Weir a few minutes before , the accident after they had had a meal at! the top of the hill.

♦■When I was young, and better looking -than I am now,” remarked a speaker at a Wellington smoke concert, ‘T was engaged to be married, and my fiancee (a confirmed. smoker of cigarettes herself), - was always asking me why I wasn’t smoking. Gentlemen, I didn’t because I couldn’t (Laughter). But, I pretended that I could. I said I smoked a pipe, but- made all sorts of excuses for falling to produce it. Well, one evening my intended presented with a fine briar. Seeing I was cornered I accepted a fill from her father’s tobacco-jar (strong stuff!) in his absence, and tremblingly lit up. In teh minutes I had had more than enough-r-and hurriedly left the room—jiljjt ip ..time! (Laughter). However, I’ye been a smoker for years now. I learned on Riverhead Gold. It’s toasted^.and like the other New Zealand tobaccos (Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish, Desert Gold and Cut Plug No. 10), its practically free from nicotine. The toasting does it! I smoke New Zealand tobacco, gentlemen, because I can’t get- any that ; is better—or half as good.”, .(Applause). , R.P. 13!