ROAD COLLISION
DRIVER OF CAR KILLED INSTANTLY SEVERAL OTHERS INJURED. ACCIDENT SOUTH OF GISBORNE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WAIROA, This Day. While returning from Gisborne last night, a car containing five persons collided in the vicinity of Tuhara, with a lorry driven by Mr John Newton, of Gisborne. The collision resulted in the instantaneous death of the driver of the car, Mr Arthur Clyde Hague, a married man, aged 36, with five children, residing in Wairoa. Mr C. W. Packwood, Wairoa manager of the Loan and Mercantile Company, received serious injuries and was removed to hospital in a dangerous condition. Mr A. B. Pittar, of Mohaka, suffered minor injuries and was also taken to hospital. The two other passengers in the car, Messrs A. D. Leash, Wairoa, and E. G. E. Parker, Feilding. two well-known stock-buyers, received cuts and abrasions.
An inquest was opened this morning and adjourned sine die after evidence of identification.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 September 1941, Page 4
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153ROAD COLLISION Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 September 1941, Page 4
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