KILLED INSTANTLY.
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER'S DEATH. (By TdegmpTi.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Edward Kenneth Manttan, aged 22 rears, a commercial traveller, residing at Fendalton. was killed instantly in the early hours this morning by the overturning of a car in which he was a passenger. Manttan enjra'ged Arthur Midgley to drive him to Kairaki, near Kaiapoi. While the car was in Poplar Avenue two straying horses ran out in front of the car, which struck one of them, and then collided with a tree. i When the driver noticed the horses ihe applied the brakes. The car swerved and overturned at the roadside. One horgp had to be destroyed. Tt is stated that Manttan had be?n at Kairaki last evening and on his return to New Brighton discovered he had forgotten his overcoat. He decided :to return for it. He was a single man. !of 22 years, and was in the employ of I Rattray and Sons. He wag well-known i among the travellers.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 57, 8 March 1923, Page 3
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