FOURTH TRIAL FIXED
HIKURANGI TRAGEDY THREE JURIES DISAGREE (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. On April 5 a bus 'collided with a train at McLeod’s Flat, near Hikurangi, and six young people were killed and four seriously injured. The driver of the bus, Noel Herbert. Wilkinson, 19, has been tried three times on a charge of negligent driving causing death, and unless the Solicitor-General intervenes he will be tried a fourth time. When the third jury disagreed yesterday, Wilkinson’s counsel protesting strongly against further proceedings, which counsel for the Crown said he was bound to apply for. Mr. Justice Herdrnan said the disaster of which prisoner was the agent was one of ■ magnitude. He would fix a new trial for next Thursday, and leave the Solicitor-General to decide whether the trial should proceed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17409, 6 November 1930, Page 7
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