YOUNG MAN KILLED
CAR GOES THROUGH BRIDGE COMPANION SEVERELY HURT [ 11Y TKLKGKAI'H —OWN CORKKSPONDKNT] WHANGAREr, Monday Fatal injuries were sustained bv Mr. Arthur H. Marson, aged 25, a railway employee at Maungaturoto, when the car in which he was a passenger met with an accident on the "Wellsford-Maungaturoto main highway yesterday afternoon. Mr. Marson, with a number of other railway employees from Maungaturoto, was returning from a football match at Wellsford against railway employees there. The car, which was driven by Mr. J. Allen, of Maungaturoto, failed to negotiate a bridge at the bottom of a difficult hill, crashed through the railings and fell into the creek below.
Mr. Marson was killed outright and Mr. Allen suffered severe leg injuries, which necessitated his admission to the l'aparoa Hospital. Mr. Marson had worked for the liailway Department for the past nine years and had been stationed at Maungaturoto for the past six months. His home was at Te Fa pa pa.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22743, 1 June 1937, Page 10
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