PLUNGE DOWN A RAVINE
IORRY AND FOUR UEOI’LE. AGED MAN DIES FROM INJURY. A motoring accident, resulting subsequently in (lie death of Mr. William dunes, occurred on the Upper Papamo:! Read. 10 miles from Tauranga, on New Year’s Day, reports the Tauranga correspondent; of -the ‘New Zealand Herald.' ‘Mr, Harry Jones, a well-known farmer of I’apamoa, accompanied by his wife and daughter, Miss Sybil Jones, ami his father, Mr. William Jones, aged 80 years, were travelling in a lorry in the direction of To Puke. When about a mile east of the entrance gate of Mr. Jones’ farm, the vehicle went over the edge of a steep ravine about 500 feet or (>OO feet, and somersaulted many times downward.
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Patea Mail, Volume LII, 7 January 1931, Page 4
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119PLUNGE DOWN A RAVINE Patea Mail, Volume LII, 7 January 1931, Page 4
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