ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.
BOY CYCLIST KILLED. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 12. Philip Charles Ryan, aged 11, was killed instantly when his bicycle skidded and droppr/l 30 feet over a cliff at Northcote yesterday afternoon. The lad was cycling with a companion. When emerging from a narrow path at the top of the steps near the wharf, he apparently applied the brakes, hut the machine skidded over and the hoy disappeared over the cliff, crashing through a pohutukawn tree on to the rocks below. His nock was broken and his skull fractured. MAN CRITICALLY INJURED. (Per Press Association.) _ NEW PLYMOUTH, March 12. With critical head, injuries, Mr Geo. Herbert Mellor, aged 66, of Waitara, was admitted to hospital to-day. He was found by a lorry driver, lying on the Main North Road north of Waitara e«rly_this morning, with his feet still on the pedals of a cycle.He remembers nothing cf the cause of the accident.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 129, 13 March 1936, Page 4
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