MOTORS TOPPLE
OFF POVERTY BAY ROADS. (By Telegraph —Per tress Association) GISBORNE, September 27. In attempting to avoid another car in ; Waikare Gorge on the NapierGisborne road last night, a car driven by Dr. Bowie of Gisborne, with Mr J. B. Kells of Gisborne as passenger, skidded in loos e shingle and somersaulted three times over the bank. Dr. Bowie sustained a dislocated shoulder and had several ribs broken and was driven, by Kells on to Wairoa.
Two Waihi motorists, Dr. Barraclough and Mr Clark, a solicitor, had a marvellous escape from death on the Opotiki-Gisborne road early this afternoon. When about fifteen miles past Toatoa and nearing Motu, their car left the road and fell two hundred feet down the Gorge. Clark clambered up, and met a roadman, and they brought up Dr. Barraclough. Clark sustained only abrasions, but Dr. Barraclough received severe head injuries, and is being brought on to Gisborne.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1931, Page 6
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