CAR LEAVES ROAD
TELEGRAPH POLE. TRAMWAY OFFICIAL KILLED. WELLINGTON, This Day. When a car ran off the road shortly before midnight, between Packakariki and Paraparaumu, John Dwyer, a tramway official, of HI Creswick Terrace, Wellington, was killed, Alexander Adcock, of 246 Sutherland Road, tramway motorman, sustained shock, a fractured left arm and injury to his back, and Ernest John Reilly, of Berth, Western Australia, who was living at 111 Creswick Terrace, shock, facial injuries and bruises to his body. The car was returning from the race meeting at Woodvile, and left the road about a mile north of McKay’s Crossing, struck a telegraph post, and finished up in the ditch. . . The driver of the car, Morris Raymond Adcock, of Sutherland Road, had a miraculous escape from injury. The. two injured' men were taken to a mtor’s residence by a passing motorisFand from there to the Wellington Hospital by the free ambulance. Their is not serious. (P-A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 1 May 1937, Page 5
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