CRASH OF A PLANE.
FATALITY IN NEW IRELAND. WOMAN KILLED, HUSBAND INJURED United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. RABAUL, Oct, 16. An aeroplane, owned by the Rabaul Airways Syndicate, crashed at Kokopo, New Ireland. Mrs Graham Mirfleld, a popular member of the Rabaul European circle, was killed. Her husband was seriously injured. The pilot, Captain W. Duncan, formerly of the Royal Air Force, was slightly injured. RECENT VISIT TO DOMINION. MR. MIRFIELD A GISBORNE BOY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.} GISBORNE, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Graham Mirfleld, the victims of the 'plane crash ol Kokopo, New Ireland, visited Gisborne on their honeymoon early in the present year, tiic ltridc?V;mm being a son of a local architect. Mrs. Mirfleld was Iho daughter of a well known Rabaul trader. She possessed a sparkling personality, which won her immediate popularity among a wide circle of her husband’s friends.
Mr. Graham .Mirfleld went lo Rabaul as an engineer for Carpenters. Limited, later becoming manager of the firm’s factories. Recently he look umJaacL
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19079, 17 October 1933, Page 5
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