YOUTH DEAD
ANOTHER INJURED
CAR LEFT ROAD AT BEND
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
WAIPUKURAU, January 2,
A motor-car ran off the road at a bend a mile south of Wanstead, on the Waipukurau-Poraugahau main highway, yesterday morning. .
Piri Cyril Wakefield, aged 17, of Porangahau, was unconscious when found and died before medical aid was obtained. W. Ropiha,. aged 19, also of Porangahau, and driver of the car, is in the Waipukurau Hospital with injuries to his back.
A passing motorist, Mr. N. P. Wilder, Wanstead, arrived a few minutes after the accident and found Ropiha on the roadway, injured, and Wakefield lying unconscious in a paddock below. Mr. Wilder went back to Wanstead Post Office and telephoned for an ambulance, but Wakefield was dead when he returned. Ropiha is stated to be making satisfactory progress.
An inquest was opened today before the Acting Coroner, Mr. A. C. Holms, J.P., and a jury. After evidence of identification the inquest was adjourned sine die.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 3
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161YOUTH DEAD Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 3
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