FATALITY AT WAIMIHA.
ONE MAN KILLED.
SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED, The Ohura Advocate reports that Mr William Barlow, of Tangitu, with his wife, his brother Gustav, and five children left Waimiha on Thursday night for their home at Tangitu. They were seen by a settler called George Stop some five or six miles out at 9 p.m. At 11.30 he got a telephone message at his house asking him to get Dr. Wells, of Te Kniti, as there had been an accident. Dr. Wells arrived on the scene of the accident at f o’clock next morning and found that Mr W. Barlow had been killed instantly, His skull was fractured. Gustav Barlow waS seriously injured. and was moved to the home at Tangitu. Deceased’s wife was moved to the Hamilton Hospital by the morning train. Several children were slightly injured. It appears that the party were driving home, when the trap went, over a bank into a gully. Constable Rushton, of Tanmarunui, left by the goods train on Friday morning for the scene of the accident.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 53, 8 February 1916, Page 5
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175FATALITY AT WAIMIHA. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 53, 8 February 1916, Page 5
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