FATAL CAPSIZE OF MOTOR
PARISH PRIEST KILLED
Smash Near Tokaanu Tyre Burst Causes Somersault (Special to THE SUN.) TAUPO, To-day. The rev. father Charles kreyemborg, parish priest at Rotorua, was killed at Reporoa at 8.30 this morning when a motor-car driven by Mr. W. L. Wiseman, solicitor, of Auckland, overturned following a tyre blowout. Other members of the party, which included Dean Van Dyk, were badly cut and shaken.
The party, which consisted of the on a level piece of road, and the car two priests, Mr. Wiseman and Mr. M. overturned completely, Father KreyH. Hampson, solicitor, of Rotorua, left ] emborg being killed instantly. The other members of the party, shaken and cut, have been taken to Rotorua. A Requiem Mass will be celebrated at Rotorua on Thursday.
Father Kreyemborg, who was aged 60, was born at Enschede, Holland, and came to New Zealand in 1892. He was one of the senior members of the Mill Hill Missionary Society, and for 14 years laboured among the Maoris along the Hokianga River. He built with his own hands many churches and schools of concrete and wood in the Northland and thermal disDean Van Dyk is superior of the Maori missionary workers.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 242, 3 January 1928, Page 1
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