TWO MEN KILLED

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3755, 16 February 1928, Page 2

TWO MEN KILLED

ACCIDENT NEAR WANGANUI,

Wknganui, February 15,

Two men were killed about 6 o’clock to-night, when a motor car, apparently | skidding in loose metal on the Marangai Hill, left the road and somersaulted down a steep slope, coming to rest a hundred yards from the road. The victims are: —

David Hector McKenzie, single, aged 27, a traveller'for Messrs Levin and Co., Wellington. Another thought to be William Earle, aged 30, a storekeeper, of KhandaTlah, where he is in business with his brother.

A third man, William Emery de Malmanche, a grocer, of Levin, who joined the others at that town, escaped death miraculously, and was taken to the Wanganui Hospital, where it was reported late to-night that his condition was not serious, consisting of shoulder injuries. The driver is thought to have been McKenzie, who used the car in his business. The faces of the deceased were terribly mutilated, and McKenzie was only identified by papers in his pocket. The car was wrecked beyond repair. The accident occurred five miles from Wanganui, on the main road. Mr. McKenzie is believed to be a son of Mr. D. McKenzie, Mayor of Petone.

McKenzie was well-known locally and spent Tuesday in Foxton.