BATTLE OF WEREROA.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1289, 18 November 1911, Page 5

BATTLE OF WEREROA.

UNFORTUNATE CELEBRATION. (By Telegraph-Press Association.) Wanganui, Novomber 17. Sunday last was tho forty-third anniversary of the fight at Wereroa, where the woll-known redoubt of that name was successfully defended by "Wereroa boys" against a determined attack by a large body of Maoris. A number of survivors determined to celebrate the occasion by a reunion at tho spot where- the redoubt stood. A number of veterans started out from Wanganui this morning for tho Fceno of tho now historic engagement. There were three motor-cars, and all went well till after passing Kai-iwi, when tho leading car. which was a considerable distance ahead of tho others, crashed twenty feet over a bank on tho sido of tho road, carrying the driver and three occupants to what, at the moment, looked like cortain death.

* h , ose in tho car were Richard Tingov (Wellington), J. Northover (Marton), and L. M CiiUoch (Wanganui), and tho chauffeur Aorthover. They wero thrown cloari but tho car capsized. Northover ran back, and gavo tho alarm, and, when tho wrecked car was sufficiently lifted, tho imprisoned men were released. It was then found that Tingey had a nb brokon, and that tho other three wcro seriously bruised and shaken. Tho irony of aafiirs is that the "Weroroa boys to-<lay sustained moro casualties than did tho garrison fortvthreo years ago.