SHOCKING FATALITY.
TVVO LIVES LOST.
AUCKLAND, March 5.
A motoring; accident, the victims of which were Harry Stockley (jockey) and E, C. Walker (taxi driver), both of Auckland, occurred this ‘evening near Paeroa. A car containing the two deceased and Herbert Cogan, and driven by Walker, was en route from Te Aroha to Thames. About dusk the driver mistook the way and took the Nether-ton Road, about a mile and a half beyond Paeroa. The Puke bridge, spanning the Wairoa River was open to allow of the passage of the steamer Waimarie. The bridge opener saw the car approaching and called out, but Walker was unable to pull the motor up, and it plunged into the opening, being precipitated info the water below. Stockley and Walker were both drowned, but Cogan reached the shore exhausted.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3428, 6 March 1920, Page 5
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