MOTOR COLLISION
CAR FALLS INTO CREEK MAN FATALLY INJURED Per Press Association. J DANNEVIRKE, Nov. 8. When returning early on Sunday morning from Owhango Settlement on the East Coast, where they had been playing for a dance on Saturday evening, a party of Dannevirke musicians were involved in a motor collision at a bend on a narrow winding road with a car driven by Mr Alexander Malcolm, farm manager, Pongaroa. The car containing the Dannevirke party, driven by Mr Leslie Anderson, went over the side and toppled into a creek about 50 feet below. A passenger in this car, a well-known native, George Manihera, aged 40, married, received severe injuries front which he died late in the afternoon at Pongaroa Cottage Hospital. Mr Leslie Anderson had four ribs broken and a severe cut on his left leg. His brother Victor suffered a sever cut on the left leg and the other mem« ber of the party, Mr Randall Sim, a gash over the left eye.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 266, 9 November 1937, Page 6
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165MOTOR COLLISION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 266, 9 November 1937, Page 6
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