MOTOR-CAR DRIVER HELD RESPONSIBLE
DEATHS OF THREE MAORIS I'UESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.I WAIROA, March 5. The inquest into the deaths of the victims of the motor-car accident on January 5 last was concluded yesterday, after a long hearing. The coroner, Mr V. E. ""/inter, returned a verdict that Walter, Tangi, and Caroline Watson died as a result of injuries received through a car collision on the Napier road. The evidence wtnt to show, added Mr Winter, thai tht- driver of the car in which the W~.tsuns were riding. James Watson, was responsible for the collision, and for the deaths of Ihe three victims. The driver, who suffered a bad fracture of the arm, is still a patient at the Gisborne Hospital. I Walter Watson, aged 48. Tangi Watson, aged 12, and Caroline Watson, aged 15. wore killed when a party of Maoris motoring lo Wairoa collided with a transport lorry on the main Napier highway near a slight bend in the road about six miles from Wairoa. The three Watsons were killed instantly.]
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21415, 6 March 1935, Page 12
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