ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
HOME GUAROMAN COLLAPSES. An elderly member of the Home Guard, Mr Peter McElwain, of Ponsonby (Auckland), a married man with an adult family, collapsed and! died! shortly afterwards while training with his unit on Sunday afternoon. Mr McElwain, who was a_ retired motorman, was taking part in a rifle shoot. CAR CAPSIZES INTO RIVER. A farmer and his wife were_ drowned when the motor car in which they were travelling from Karioi to Taih ape on Saturday morning left the road and fell upside down into the Wangaehu River. The victims were: Jackie Paiwananga Maroney/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 at 7 a.m. near Karioi, about 12 miles south of Ohakune. While negotiating a bad hend, : the car apparently got out of control. LEG FRACTURED. A middle-aged man named Albert Sanue, who resided at the Salvation Army’s shelter in Maclaggan street, was admitted to the Public Hospital on Saturday, at 5 p.m., with a fractured left leg, sustained when he fell on the pavement near tho Grand Theatre.
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Evening Star, Issue 24293, 7 September 1942, Page 2
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190ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 24293, 7 September 1942, Page 2
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