CAR OVER A BANK
THE DRIVER KILLED. ( Ter Press Association). THAMES SOUTH. Jan. 22. As the result of a car going over a bank at about midnight nine miles from Whitianga, Mr. Robert Stanley Robertson, traveller for John Reid and Co., Auckland, aged 45, married, with four children driver of the car, was killed instantly, and his two companions wore injured and taken to hospital at Mercury Bay—Mr. Leslie Jolly, of Cromwell, married, condition serious; Mr. Alfred Wilson, licensee of the Tapu Hotel, married, condition serious. The car was proceeding from Coromandel to Whitianga. It is believed that the bank gave way and the car rolled over into the creek below, all of the occupants being thrown into the water. The driver, Mr. Robertson, was killed instantly. His body was removed to Whitianga, where an inqueet will be held. SINGLE MAN’S DEATH LOG-LADEN LORRY OVER BANK | Ter Press Association. ] PALMERSTON N., Jan. 22. - Percy Halford, aged 27, single, whoM parents reside at Waituna West, was
killed near Kimbolton to-day when a lorry laden with logs plunged over • bank as the driver was endeavouring to pass a car at a. bend in the road.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 19, 23 January 1935, Page 7
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193CAR OVER A BANK Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 19, 23 January 1935, Page 7
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