A District Nurse Seriously Injured
[Per Press Association. Copyright.'} GISBORNE, This Day.
In a collision at Motuhora yesterday, between a car and a truck, Sister A. Pritchard, the district nurse, was seriously injured. The tray of the lorry stripped the windscreen and hood clear off the driver’s seat, and the car was wrecked. The injured woman was conveyed 40 miles to hospital.
Guilty On Serious Charge
/Per Press Association. Copyright .] WELLINGTON, This Day. Returning yesterday afternoon after an absence of two and a half hours, a jury in the Supreme Court found Percy Reginald Speers, draper, aged 42, guilty of unlawfully using an instrument. He was acquitted on three other counts. The jury added a rider that the principal witness for the Crown was a consenting party in all the transactions. The principal witness for the Crown was a widow with several children. The prisoner was charged with unlawfully using an instrument, with inciting a woman to permit an instrument to be used, with supplying a noxious drug, and with attempting to supply a noxious drug. The prisoner was remanded for sentence.
A Forced Landing
[Special to “Northern Advocate ” 3 CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
A forced landing was made by a Blackburn-Baffin light bomber belonging to the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula, at about noon yesterday. Tbs two occupants, Pilot-Officer W. A. Hopkins, the pilot, and Pilot-Olficer R. Grant, navigator, both of Christchurch, were not injured. The machine, which landed on the edge of the beach and turned over in the surf, was considerably damaged.
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Northern Advocate, 11 May 1939, Page 8
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