ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 309, 12 January 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[press association.!

CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. The annual gala .at New Brighton, which wag held yesterday, ended with a fatality. An enormous crowd had gone to the seaside, and the late trams back to town- were .rushed. George Palethoiipe, head waiter at Warner's Hotel, tried to board the trailer, of <& moving tram on the wrong side. The gate was shut and Balethoripe was knocked off the step by a pole carrying tho overhead construction!, and he fell under the second trailer of the same tram, the wheels cutting off his loft leg and arm. He died! at the hospital this morning. He was a married man with threo children.