FATAL ACCIDENT.
WELLINGTON, May 3. The Police Inspector is advised by telegraph from Havelock of a fatal accident having occurred yesterday morning at Canvastown about five miles from Havelock, the victim being Rasmussen Simonsen, 63 years of age, a resident of Canvastown. Simonsen was driving a vehicle, and in trying to pass a timber wagon on a narrow road, collided and was thrown under the wagon, the wheels passing over his chest. He was killed instantly.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9081, 4 May 1908, Page 5
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76FATAL ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9081, 4 May 1908, Page 5
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