MOTOR FATALITY
TRUCK GOES OVER BANK. WATERSIDE WORKER KILLED. IBy Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN. June 9. A waterside worker. Mr George Charles Amas, aged 31, was killed on Saturday afternoon when a motor truck in which he was riding went over a bank near Roseneath on the DunedinPort Chalmers road. The truck left the road at a steep bend and rolled about 60 feet before coming to rest at the bottom of the bank. Mr Amas. who was dead when the police arrived, had apparently been thrown clear, as he was lying a short distance from the truck. Mr Miles Middleditch, driver of the truck, escaped with minor injuries.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1940, Page 7
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