MOTOR CAR ACCIDENT.
A CHILD DROWNED. Napier, Yesterday. A motor car, owned by Peter Smith, collided with the hand-rail of a bridge near Petane last night. Mr and Airs Mooar and their children, a man mimed Wilkinson, and two others, were thrown out. One child was drowned, and the body Ims not been recovered. Wilkinson suffered minor injuries to a leg. Mrs Mooar was also thrown into the river, but was rescued. Mr and Mrs Mooar and their youngest; child arc in hospital. The rear pari of the car struck the wing of the bridge as the car was centering.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1716, 24 May 1917, Page 3
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100MOTOR CAR ACCIDENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1716, 24 May 1917, Page 3
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