FATAL ACCIDENT
TO TRAFFIC INSPECTOR. (By Telegraph—Ter Tress Association) THAMES, August 4. Mr W. R. Johnstone, traffic inspector of Hauraki Plains county, was found unconscious on the main road near Ngatea early on Sunday morning, his motor cycle lying close while a dead cow was about twenty feCt away. He died: in the hospital last night. Johnstone had been at Thames on Saturday night. It is believed that when cycling home to Ngatea ho collided with a cow killing it. Ho suffered a fracture of the base of the skull and lacerated brain. An inquest will be held.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1931, Page 6
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98FATAL ACCIDENT Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1931, Page 6
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