MOTORING ACCIDENT.
DISAPPEARANCE OF DRIVER. Per Press Association. OAMARU, April 23. No trace lias yet been found of Mr Hudson, whose car ran over the cliff, on the road above Kurow, early yesterday morning, bearing with it a young girl, Olive Rutherford, aged 17, who was employed as a clerk by the Otago Fanners’ Union at Dunedin. Miss Rutherford lies in the Kurow hospital in a. serious condition, with a punctured wound in the head. At seven in the morning the car was seen by a passing motor cyclist, who stopped it on the road, and the occupants replied to a query that they were all right. Half an hour later another passer-by saw car marks leading over the bank. Investigation found that the car was badly smashed on the rocks 130 feet below' and that the girl was on a ledge 20 leot higher up. The girl was operated on last night, and her condition is still very serious. Mr Hhdson, who is a son of Mr Arthur Hudson, of Dunedin, was driving to his brother’s station in the back country. His disappearance is most mysterious, as the river flows at least 40' feet from where the car was found.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 120, 23 April 1925, Page 5
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201MOTORING ACCIDENT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 120, 23 April 1925, Page 5
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