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FATAL ACCIDENT CRASH AT KIHIKIHI Shortly before 2 p.m. to-day on the main south road about a mile from Kihikihi, a car driven by Mr W. Elliot, = of Otorohanga, collided with a truck owned by the Waipa County Council, and driven by Mr G. Snowden. Mr Elliot was killed instantly. The lorry was carrying a load of metal and the car struck the rear portion with terrific force, both vehicles being locked together. Tvo passengers in the car, both residents of Otorohanga, were hurt, one suffering a broken thigh and the ether minor injuries. The occupants of the truck were uninjured. CASE FROM AHAPUNI The St John Ambulance from Hamton was called to Arapuni this afternoon to convey to the Waikato Hospital a man named Glover who, it was j reported was suffering from a broken knee. Details are not available. £13,249 DEFICIT SHAREBROKER’S ESTATE CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. Thore is an apparent deficiency of £13,249 7s 7d in the estate of the late Thomas Newburgh, a former Mayor of Sumner and well-known sharebroker, who was found dead in his car at Culverden on March 15. Assets totalled £67,384 3s 11d, while the total indebtedness was £94,192 11s 9d. Thomas Newburgh estate’s proportion of this total (thirteen-fifteenths) wa» £81,633 11s 6d. EARLY END OF WAR? SUCCESS OF NATIONALISTS SARAGOSSA, April 4. It is officially announced that the Nationalists fought their way to within striking distance of Tortosa, a Republican seaplane base, through which run the last road and rail communications linking Barcelona with Valencia and Madrid. The Nationalists also captured Morelia, commanding the road to the Mediterranean Sea, after a fourteen miles advance over a 4000 foot pass, taking one thousand prisoners. The Perpignan correspondent of the Daily Telegraph has learned that the Republican Government is preoccupied with preventing further slaughter and destruction in Catalonia. Accordingly reports of the possibility of an armistice probably possess substance, as further resistance is becoming out of the question. Well-informed circles believe that the war will ba finished at the end of a month* t i.Uif
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20466, 5 April 1938, Page 6
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