LORRY GOES OVER BANK.
WITH-PICNIC PARTY.. BOtl" DIES FEOMJNJURIIiS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) TE KCITI, This Day. As the result of a tie-pin becoming detached from the steering road, a lorry carrying a picnic party of parents and children, a, total of 28, went over a bank near Awakino on Sunday morning. It fell 40 feet. As the result of injuries, Alax Brcdenbeck, son of IA -Bredenbeck, owner and driver of the lorry, died in the hospital this morning. Gordon Weir, aged S, residing at Arapae, is also in -the hospital, suffering from injured ribs and shock. The others received minor injuries. The lorry escaped being hurled into the Awakino river through being caught on a protruding bank.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 December 1927, Page 5
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