GIRL’S DEATH
KNOCKED DOWN BY MOTOR VAN. AUCKLAND, Friday. Fatal injuries were received by Gladys Guptcl, aged about eight years, whose parents reside in Cook Street, as the result of being knocked down by a motor van in llobson Street at eight o ’clock to-night. The girl suffered a fracture of the skull and fractures of both tnighs, hei death being practically instantaneous. The child, in company with other children, was returning home after attending a jumble sale at the Dock Street Alission. She walked up the lefthand side of Hobson Street, and when near the Prince of Wales Hotel suddenly darted across the street. The tiaffic was very heavy at that hour, and the girl narrowly missed being struck by a bicycle. She continued running across the street, and was knocked down by the van. — (P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 March 1932, Page 5
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