CAR’S FATAL SKID
FATHER AND SON KILLED (Per Press Association.) HAWERA, last night. • A verdict. in accordance with the medical evidence was returned at an inquest at Patea to-day on William Henry Moore, 24. of Hawera, and his father, William Sturrock Moore, -55, of Blenheim, who died in Patea Hospital, subsequent to the capsize of a car near Moumahaki on September 15. Moore, jun., succumbed the following morning to a fractured skull, and Moore, sen., died on November 12 from myocardial degeneration accelerated by the shock of the accident. The pair were travelling south with John E. Jones, professional boxer, in a small car belonging to Jones, who stated in evidence that Moore, jun., took over the wheel shortly before reaching the scene of the accident, which occurred as the result ot a skid, on a greasy patch of the road. Jones escaped injury.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17417, 15 November 1930, Page 16
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