YESTERDAY'S ACCIDENTS.
MOTOR BITS STRIKES MAN. SEAMAN'S EYES INJURED. Two cases were admitted to the accident ward of the Auckland Hospital last evening. Mr. Robert Gibson, aged 31 years, residing at 46, Grey Street, sustained a fractured right arm and abrasions to the face through being struck by a City Council motor bug shortly after seven o'clock. The bus was proceeding dewr* Queen Street and when it was near the junction with Wyn&ham Street Mr. Gibson stepped off the pavement and was struck and thrown clear by it. At the time of the accident heavy rain was falling, but despite this the driver of the bus pulled his vehicle up in about six feet. Through falling from a desk at the home of her parents in Station Road, Papatoetoe. Zolene, the twenty-months' baby girl of Mr. and Mrs. S. Chamberlain, suffered a. broken arm.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 96, 24 April 1926, Page 11
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