MOTORING TRAGEDY
TWO PERSONS KILLED (Per Press Association.) STRATFORD, this day. Two lives were lost when a motor car capsized over a hank at Pohokura, on the line of the Stratford Main Trunk railway last night. The car was driven by Mr. A. V. Holmsley, a carpenter, of Tangarakau, who had with him his mother, Beatrice Annie Helmslev, 47, and his son, Victor Keith Holmsley, four. The car fell into 2ft. of water, the son being pinned underneath and killed instantaneously. Mrs. Holmsley was extricated with difficulty, and died on the way to Stratford Hospital later. The party left Tangarakau yesterday to visit Holmsley’s wife,, in hospital in Stratford, and the tragedy occurred on the return -journey, • »,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17588, 2 October 1931, Page 6
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117MOTORING TRAGEDY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17588, 2 October 1931, Page 6
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