TELEGRAPH BOY KILLED.
BICYCLE COLLIDED WITH
LORRY.
(By Telegraph.—l'ress Association.)
WELLINGTON, Friday.
As a result of a collision between motor lorry and a bicycle at tlie in er section of Hanson and Hall "tree , Wellington South, about live o'clock 0niglit George Allan Turnbull, aged i years, a telegraph messenger, was , .£ severely injured that he died .w i being taken to the Public Hospital. The boy was proceeding down J along Hall Street when he collided_witfl a lorry belonging to T. A. We > Limited, oil and colour merehan > Vivian Street, and driven by AID Edward Collins. . . '.' . t The boy received severe mjurie the head, and also received abrasions his arms and legs. He was a son Mr. John James Turnbull, larnhain Street, Mornington. , Some eight years ago Mr. _ lost another son in rather tragic cir stances. In company with a man na Thomas, Philip Henry Turnbull, ag years, was engaged in excavating building section in Balfour Road, ington, when the bank began to move and he was killed by a fall of ear • • Thomas' two children were caugptojr the falling earth, but were practxcauy U1 Turnbull, who was. WUed-toj day, narrowly escaped being _ about six years ago, when no knocked down by a motor car I . tt . . town, receiving severe internal injuria . For about two years ho was mhosp. and'had not long recoverea,
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 199, 23 August 1930, Page 12
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