COUPLE DROWNED
Car Falls From Road
Into River
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, September 6.
A farmer and his wife were drowned when a motor-car in which they were travelling from Karioi to Tailiape on Saturday morning left the road and fell upside-down into the Wangaehu River. The victims were Jackie Paiwananga Maroney, Karioi, a native of Rarotonga-, aged 38, and Tira Ereupi Maroney, a Maori, aged 36. ’They were the only occupants of the car. The accident occurred near Karioi and about 12 miles south of Ohakune, at 7 a.m. When a bad tend was. being negotiated the car apparently became out of control. It fell 30 feet into six feet of water, and the occupants were trapped underneath. The bodies were recovered by the police.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 291, 7 September 1942, Page 6
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126COUPLE DROWNED Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 291, 7 September 1942, Page 6
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