ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
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Harold Gordon Ghent, a traveller by occupation, died to-day from the effects of poison at his residence at Reinucra. He had been on a drink' ing bout for a week past.
Through the car in which he was a passenger overturning in a patch of shingle in trying to avoid a cyclist. Mrs Fanny Shepherd, a widow, aged 51. was killed at Southbrook. Canterbury. yesterday afternoon. Mrs Shepherd was beiti- driven by her son, aged 19. along the n r.md She was pinned underneath the ear, the diiver escaping with bruises.
A Maori named Paikonaki Waihua, aged 50. employed as a shearer at Waibata, Gisborne, died suddenly after complaining of pains in his chest and side. An inquest is being held to-day.
J. L. Thomas, a single man, aged 48, a swamill hand, of Kaka, Nelson, died as a result of a fractured spine caused by the car he was driving over Spooner's Range nose-diving over a bank on Saturday afternoon. Two other occupants. W Everett and R. Biggs, escaped serious injury. The deceased was learning to drive at the time, and the instructor was sitting alongside when the accident occured.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 21 November 1927, Page 5
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197ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 21 November 1927, Page 5
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