SHOCKING FATALITY.
ON MASTERTON TE WHARAU ROAD. ONE MAN KILLED AND ANOTHER ~ SERIOUSLY INJURED. 1 ' „ , •—* " i News reached Masterton last 'evening of a shocking fatality having oc--1 curred on the Lansdowne Hill, about l nino miles this side of Te Wharau, yesterday afternoon. From tho scant details available, 'it appears that I Messrs Albert Nicolson and R. T. Douglas left Masterton yesteiday in 'a biake for Te* Wharau (where Mr Nicol«on had a contract) with a load of wire. By some means or another the brake and occupants were precipitated over an embankment. Mr Nicolson was killed outright, and Mr | Douglas was shockingly injured. The police in Masterton were communicat-1 r ed withy and Dr. Cook and Constable Bird proceeded to the scene of the ac- J cident in a motor car. The late Mr Albert Nicolson was I the third son of (the-late,Mr D. Nicolson/of Clarewillo,,. and, a .brother, of MrDohaM Nicolson,* of Masterton, Efo'was a married L man, with < three ' children, and had formerly been in charge of the post office at Te Wharau. He was forty vears of age. He came to Masterton as a witness in a Supreme Court case.
Mr R. T. Douglas is a son of Mr Andrew Douglas, who is well-known on the East Coast, and was about twentvpiirb+ rnnn n f ncro. \ brother. Mr Hugh Douglas, livos at Lansdowne
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10201, 31 March 1911, Page 5
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227SHOCKING FATALITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10201, 31 March 1911, Page 5
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