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Chronicle (Levin), 14 June 1948, Page 3

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AUCKLAND, June 13. On their way to a wedding six' people, incluaing the bridegroom, escaped serious injury when the car in which they were travelling' left the road and plunged into a gully near Rothesay on Saturday. In the car were Harold King, of Kaipara Elats, hia mother and f ather, Mr. and Mra. A. E. King, and three others. They were going from Kaipara Flata to the wedding at Otahuhu of Harold King to Misa A. D. Blue, of Brown's Bay. Mr. King, senior, sulfered two fraetured ribs and shock and Mrs. King abrasions and shock. The other members of the party were uninjured. Coming round a bend the car left the road, crashed through thiclc manuka scrub and came to rest at the bottom of the gully 100 yards from where it had left the road. A farmer who lives , nearby summohed a doctor who treated the two injured and they were taken to the Auckland hospital. The other four members of the party continued their journey by taxi. Before the injured could be removed from the gully a way had to be cleared through the manuka and steps cut in the ciay bank by the farmer who was at the scene. The car was wrecked. The wedding, which was due to start at 1 p.m. at the Otahuhu Presbyterian Church, finally took place at 1.45 p.ni.