MAN DEAD ON ROAD
HEAD BADLY INJURED HIT AND RUN VICTIM (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Within a quarter of an hour of the expiration of the old year, a motorist passing the intersection of Manukau road and Silver road noticed the body of a man lying on the road within a few feet of the tram tracks. On investigating he found the man was dead. He is believed to be a victim of a hit-and-run motorist. The St. John Ambulance was immediately summoned, but the , man was obviously dead on its arrival, having suffered a severe head injury and heavy loss of blood. The vjctim was Robert Kerr, a visitor from Fukemiro. By a strange irony of fate Mr. Kerr had inspected the same ambulance in the morning that had been summoned near midnight to convey him to the Auckland Hospital. He was secretary of the Pukemiro Medical Association, and in that capacity had been shown rotind the St. John Ambulance station and had inspected the equipment there on Friday morning. He was a miner, aged about 65 years.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19522, 3 January 1938, Page 2
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