YOUNG MAORI KILLED
TRUCK RUNS INTO BANK FATALITY NEAR ROTORUA (Per Press Association.) ROTORUA, last night. A young Maori, Edward Fleming, aged 20, of Te Puke, was killed on New Year's Eve when a motbr truck in which he was a passenger crashed into a bank and capsized about four miles from Ngongotaha township. Four other passengers in the truck received slight injuries. The party was proceeding to Rotorua from Te Puke to take part in the New Year celebrations. Apparently after passing another vehicle, the truck skidded in loose metal and crashed into a bank and capsized. The driver, George Dinsdale, had two passengers with him in the cab, and the remainder were on the rear of the vehicle. Those in the cab were imprisoned in the wreckage, and the remainder were thrown off into the roadway, where Mr. Fleming was found unconscious. He died shortly after admission to hospital.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19522, 3 January 1938, Page 3
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