STRUCK BY TENT POLE.
GIRL DIES IN HOSPITAL^ UNUSUAL MOTORING MISHAP. RETURNING FROM PICTURES. [Br TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WHAKATANE, Thursday. The death occurred in the Whakatane Hospital early this morning of Miss Lola Marcia Warn, aged 18, who was injured on the night of February 23 as the result of an unusual motoring mishap between Whakatane and Taneatua. Miss Warn was one of a party of seven, who were driven to the picture theatre at Whakatane by Mr. George Kiddie, taxi-driver. After the pictures the party started on the return journey, the car being full. When they had gone about four miles they met a motor-lorry coming from the direction of Taneatua. Ifc contained the gear of a round-about and was returning from the Opotiki Show. As the car and lorry passed Miss Warn was struck heavily with the pointed end of a tent pole. The driver of the motorcar did not realise that anything was amiss until one of the passengers told him Miss Warn had been struck just below the shoulder and was bleeding profusely. It was subsequently found that the point of the pole had penetrated fully six inches.
Miss Warn was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Warn, of Seddon Avenue, Waihi.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20199, 8 March 1929, Page 12
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