A MOTOR FATALITY.
CAR FALLS IN A RIVER. TWO MEN DROWNED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland Last Night. A motoring accident, the victims of Which were Harry Stockley (a jockey) and E. C. Walker (a taxi driver), both of Auckland, occurred this evening, near Paeroa. A car containing the two deceased and Herbert Cogati, and driven by Walker, was en route from Te Aroha to Thames. About dusk the driver mistook the way and took the About a mile and a hall beyond Paeroa the Puke bridge, spanning the Wairoa river, was open to allow 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 into the water below. Stockley and Walker were both drowned, but. Cogan reached the shore exhausted.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1920, Page 5
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143A MOTOR FATALITY. Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1920, Page 5
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