ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
WELL-KNOWN MAORI DROWNED By Telegraph.—Press Association. Rotorna. I,aa( N'lght. Wi Wliaitiri, a prominent Maori t>f Taheke, was drowned in the Katun*. River below the Okore Falls. He wai •hag shooting on Sunday afternoon, and do swam to retrieve a bird, but was swept away by the current. The bodv has not been recovered. A NARROW ESCAPE. Ey Telegraph.—Press Association. Nelson, Last Night, While endeavoring to avoid injuring » child who ran across the road at Richmond crossing this afternoon, a motor-car driver had his attention diverted from an approaching train and the car struck the engine. Of five occupants of the car, one girl, aged 12 years, named Rhodes, residing at Motueka, was rather seriously injured, the flesh being stripped from her leg by the wheels of the' engine. She had :t miraculous escape from death. None of tho other occupants of the car wu* seriously injured.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 January 1916, Page 4
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