ELDERLY WOMAN KILLED
Per Press Association. MASTERTON, March 6. An elderly woman named Sarah Shaw, aged seventy-three years, the wife of Thomas Shaw, of Greytown, a farmer, was knocked down by a motorcycle ridden by Ralph John Staples, of Masterton, on the main Greytown road shortly after eleven o'clock on Saturday night. Herbert White, of Wellington. was on the pillion seat of the cycle. Mrs Shaw sustained a broken leg and arm and subsequently died at midnight from shock at her residence. Deceased apparently was confused by the light of the cycle, which was proceeding on its correct side. She walked right into it.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 366, 7 March 1932, Page 12
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104ELDERLY WOMAN KILLED Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 366, 7 March 1932, Page 12
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