FARMER LOSES LIFE
FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WHANGAREI, January 10. A fatality occurred yesterday afternoon when a motor-car capsized on the Ruarangi-Paparoa Road. The victim was Thomas Joseph le Vaillant, aged 59, farmer, Ruarangi. A passenger in the car, Merle Campbell, aged five, whose parents reside in Taipuha, was cut on the head by broken glass. She was brought to the Whangarei Hospital. Mr le Vaillant had been cutting scrub on the Ruarangi-Paparoa Road, about three-quarters of a mile from his farm, and at midday his son Ivan had arrived with their car to bring his father home for lunch. Also in the car were Mrs le Vaillant; her neice, Merle Campbell, who was spending a holiday with her aunt; and another son of Mi le Vaillant.
After picking up their father a start was made for home. The car ran off the road and into a bank about 3ft high. After running along the bank for about 10 yards it capsized, pinning the occupants beneath. The two youths were able to clamber from underneath the vehicle, and, on lifting it, they found that their father had severe head injuries. Dr S. H. Ward was summoned from Whangarei. but Mr Le Valliant was dead when he arrived.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1939, Page 7
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