SENSATIONAL CELEBRATIONS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12615, 18 November 1911, Page 3

SENSATIONAL CELEBRATIONS.

(Per Press Association). WANGANUI, last night. Sunday last was the forty-third anni vensary'of the fight at Weraroa, where tlie well-known redoubt of that namt was successfully defended by a quota of Weraroa boys, "against a determined attack by a large body of Maoris." A number of survivors determined to celebrate the occasion by a reunion at the spot where the redoubt stood. Ten veterans started out from Wanganui yesterday, morning for the scene of the now historic engagement.' There were three Be motor cars,T-sand-. all >' went well. still. .aftei 'M pas^ing.-iKai^wii^w.hen.the lead^ig 1 - car-. which was a considerable distance -ahead of the others, crashed 20ft over a bankon the side of the road, carrying the" driver and three occupants to what for a moment looked like certain death. Those in the car were Richard Tingey •(Wellington), J. Northover (Marton), and E. McCullough (Wanganui), and the chauffeur. Mr Northover was thrown clear, but the car capsized on the others. Mr Northover ran back and gave, the alarm, and when the wrecked car wa* lifted sufficiently the imprisoned men were released. It was found that Mi Tingey had a rib broken, and that the other three were seriously braised and , shaken, The escape from death is regarded as marvellous. The irony of the affair is that the Weraroa boys sustained more casualties than did the garrison 43 years ago. . .