A FATAL ACCIDENT.
By Telegraph—Press Association. NAPIER, October 25. Mrs Phyllis Brooke, aged about 40, who was employed as barmaid at the Criterion Hotel, met with a fatal accident while out riding today. The horse refused to pass a trap on thePetane bridge at Port Ahuriri, and turned round and bolted to near the corner of Shakespeare and Battery roads. Mrs Brooke was thrown, and she was dragged for a short distance. Her skull was fractured, and she died at the Hospital about three hours later. She has a son at Studholme Junction and a brother at Clinton.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3027, 26 October 1908, Page 5
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98A FATAL ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3027, 26 October 1908, Page 5
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