TWO MEN KILLED
BAY' TRAGEDY. /iPjaf / Press: Associ a tioh .7 - /f m ' NAPIER, Jan. 3.,:, - “TvvdAbrol'hers, Wilfred Sehvyn Os- ' bo|*pe||h®^^3':;iand ; Bernard Augustus Oeborne,.’.' aged 43, of” Palmerston kiiied -. .pdieii their • ear . ife a stedp incline of 250 about 20 : s on the nuwn road* to liValrpa,/early thjs morning: - . *>• .As ( they! -seiA; travelling uphill toWards Napier, they encountered a ser-vioO.!cah->owned by .- the Dueo Coy. Qwlfig, tpf|he dangerous nature of the hill, -the bank on the left they were huging the .baiilC -And. they consequently were the wfhrig side of the ;roa4i -~A« -service. bar canie into ’ vie'irV'j they pulled to tile left, their ■ swerve taking them on to tlie brink of the ferrifio drop; The driver appears , to 1 have - .been • unable to straighten up a<rain before the outside wheels of liis ear got .over the edge of the’ hank. Carried by its own weight, the vehicle tlxhn slid Blowly over the edge, hurtlidg. to the bottom of the gorge once all four of tlie wheels left the road. tßdth m«n died, from the terrible m-jui-ibs whiph ■, tliey. received. Their bodies': were'.brought to Napier. An ihqifd»t v w*is- opened this morning, heiiigVa.djouh'ried’ after evidence of identification was given: t>y a- cciisin of tha Gisborne family named Honors
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1931, Page 3
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