INQUEST AT HAWERA
SOUTH ROAD MOTOR SMASH,
“That deceased was killed in a motor accident on the night of March 22 through the car in which he was a passenger getting out of the control of the driver, Alfred Walker, and overturning, crushing deceased's head," was the linding of the coroner, Mr. It. S. Sage, at the inquest into the death of Norman McLeod, held in the Ilawera Court on Thursday. “The evidence produced tends to show that the consumption of liquor on some part of the occupants may have had some part in the cause of the accident, ’ was a rider attached to the finding by the coroner.
Norman McLeod was killed when the car struck an electric light post on the South Load about a mile and ahalf from Ilawera towards the Ohawe Beach. The power lines were snapped at the time and the town of Ilawera plunged into darkness for over an hour. The telephone system was also affected at the time by a short circuit.
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Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 18 April 1932, Page 2
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169INQUEST AT HAWERA Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 18 April 1932, Page 2
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