ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
GIRL CYCLIST KILLED STRUCK BY MOTOR CAR (Per United Press Association* AUCKLAND, Feb. 25. A girl cyclist was struck by a motor car and killed on the Great South road near Pukekohe to-day. She was Norma Elaine Fletcher, aged nine, only daughter of Mr and Mrs Harold Fletcher, of Bombay. The accident happened when she was cycling home after school. FALL ON TO ROADWAY ELECTRICIAN’S DEATH (Per United Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 25. Injuries which proved fatal were received by Percy Holmes, an electrician, aged 30, a married man with three children, when he fell 20ft on to the bitumen roadway in Devon street, New Plymouth, this morning. Holmes was disconnecting temporary lighting when it is surmised that he received a shock, as his hands were scorched, but it has not been established whether death was actually caused by injuries in his fall or by electrocution.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23436, 26 February 1938, Page 13
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