DOMINION ROAD ACCIDENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 5, 6 January 1923, Page 6

DOMINION ROAD ACCIDENT.

■ , , mammm —■ , . INJURIES PROVE FATAL VICTIM A FORMER ATHT-EJE. The death occured at the Auckland Hospital this morning of Mr. Henry Slade who waa thrown from his trap in Dominion Road yesterday afternoon a* the result of a collision with a motor cycle and attached side-car. Mr. Slade was a quarter-caste Maori, 76 years of age. and resided in Peterson Road, Edendale. He was born at VVbangaroa and was a well-known former athelete at tbe oar and on the running track. H» also took part in whaler races. He waa for 30 years employed by Messrs. Win. stone and on retiring some six years ago he took up poultry farming at Edendale chiefly aa a hobby. Mr. Slade was * familiar figure about town to which he drove almost daily. The accident, it appears, occurred in a somewhat peculiar manner. De. ceased was rounding the corner when a motor cycle, towing another disabled machine, attempted to pass Mr. Blade's trap in the rear. Just as the trap waa on the turn the machine caught the wheel and, tilting the cart, threw the deceased on to the road. The coronial inquiry into the cause of death was opened this morning before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S_M. Formal evidence of identification was taken and the inquest was adjourned until next week. A po_t mortem will be taken in the interim.