MOTOR FATALITY
PEDESTRIAN KILLED TRAGEDY AT TAWA FLAT. VEHICLE DOES NOT STOP. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Struck by a motor-car which did not stop after the accident, a- man who was walking along the Main Road at Tawa Flat last night in company with a woman, was killed. The police immediately began a search for the car, but late last night it had not been found. The man was Antony Sutherland, builder, aged about 44. Mr Sutherland lived in Oxford Street, Tawa Flat, and his companion, Mrs Coombes, lives in Lincoln Road, Tawa Flat. They had travelled by train from Wellington and they had alighted at Takapu, the station before Tawa 'Flat, by mistake. Both had been misled into thinking that Takapu was Tawa Flat by the train making an unexpected stop at Takapu.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 May 1942, Page 4
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136MOTOR FATALITY Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 May 1942, Page 4
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