ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
INJURED IN ACCIDENT,
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association)
NEW PLYMOUTH, April 21
Arcliibald W. Rowles and F. Locke, both of Waitara, received serious head injuries to-night w.lien Rowles cai left the road and crashed into an electric light pole at New Plymouth. The force of the impact split the stout pole half way up, and plunged the. district into darkness. The car Mb the road after crossing Wniwakaiho bridge. It missed one pole, and the rear struck the next. The car jumped towards the roadway, landed on its nose, somersaulted and slewed round. The hospital reported that both men have head injuries, and their condition is fairly critical.
CRASH THROUGH •SKYLIGHT.
MASTERTON, April 21
Crashing through a skylight m Hugo and Shearers’ .building Queen Street, this afternoon, a youth of 13* years, Ivan Free, whose parents reside in Palmerston North, fell thirty feet to the ground floor in the show room, lie received a broken wrfet, concussion and cuts, and was admitted to the hospital in a serious condition. Ho is a visitor, and was «>»- gaged! in work on the roof.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1932, Page 5
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