FATHER OF FOUR CHILDREN KILLED
'♦ NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec. 7. Pinncd under the wrcckage of lti.-» open car a Waitowhena resident dieu some time after the car dived over a 10-foot bank on the Waitewhena-Ohuru ' road late on Friday night. His failure to return home caused little anxietv until yeslerday when a search resulted in the diseovery of the ear liidden by fern and serub at the bottom of sheer bank. The dead man was l^Ir. Ronald James Smith, a 38-year-old bulldozer mechauic employed at the Waitewhena State coal mines. He leavcs a wife and fou; voung children. When he did not return home it was thought . he had decided to "stav overniglit with friends at Ohura, and it was not until he failed to return on the following night that an alarm was raised. Death was thought to havt occurrcd within half an liour of the accident. •
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 December 1947, Page 2
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