ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
MAN'S,, THROAT OUT (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last- night. Alexander Newton* Cairns, formerly an engine-driver on the New Zealand railways and recently retired, was found at his boardinghouso yesterday with his throat cut. SERIOUS MOTOR MISHAP (Per Press Association.) HAMILTON, last night, Serious head injuries were received by George Foster, a married man with two children, in a. collision with a ear driven by H. Cave, in School Gully, Hamilton East, last evening. Foster was unconscious when admitted to hospital. Ho is' in a critical condition. BOY’S BODY RECOVERED (Per Press Association.' INVERCARGILL, last night. The body of a schoolboy, George Nltand, who disappeared from his home on Friday, March 12, was found in the Waihopai' River on Saturday afternoon. Tho boy was fully dressed over a bathing suit. It is believed that it had lieon in tho water for over a week. FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, last' night. Through skidding on a wet tramline early this morning, a car driven by John Boyd Clark crashed into a telegraph post at the Clock Tower corner and four occupants wero thrown out. Maureen Boris Mitchell, 25, was killed, and Cecil Penlington had an arm fractured.** The driver and Norah Rich were shaken an'd bruised.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16914, 1 April 1929, Page 9
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