Death On Wau-Labu
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Road
From Our Own Correspondent
Lae, Ng, Nov. 25.
THE hazardous road which win through the valleys and alo; mountain sides between W and Labu (at the mouth of t Markham River, near Lae, NG claimed another victim on Novemt 9, when a heavy, ten-wheel dies truck crashed over the side of t road, killing a young woman.
She was Mrs. Moya Paterson, newcomer to the Territory and bride of only four months. H husband is Mr. Desmond (24), a Cadet Agricultural Ofiic stationed at the Erap Livesto Station near Nadzab. Paterson w also a passenger in the truck b escaped, suffering from abrasions a: shock.
The truck belonged to Gold Pines Sawmilling Company, Bulo and was hauling 5,000 super f( of sawn timber to Lae when t accident occurred. The driver the truck, Robert Brian Stapletc suffered from shock and a dislocat shoulder.
Paterson had travelled with 1 wife to Zenag to spray cattle the farm of Mr. Michael Leahy a: accepted a ride on the lorry ba to Lae.
The brakes of the truck fail when negotiating the last of a nui ber of bends near Oomsis, about miles from Labu. Stapleton tried stop the truck by turning it ir the inside bank, but after ridi the bank for some distance the tru turned on its side and slither over the side of the road.