CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17061, 4 February 1921, Page 8

CASUALTIES.

AVith. reference to a report appearing iq yesterday issue stating tiia-fc a. motorcyclist was injured on the Biccarton road by colliding wiih. a motor-van, the driver of the motor, C. Herd, states that the facts are riot quite as reported. While 1 cpming into the city he saw the motor-cycle, which.was coming behind him at a good pace,, strike a. rut at the side of the road and turn into a side channel. Subsequently •it struck an electric tram pole and raced along £he road. Mr Herd zigzagged his van in front of the motor-cycle and managed to stop it, thus preventing a possible accident further along the road. He then turned back and, rendered assistance to the rider of the motor-cycle, who had been thrown' off. . A juan, named Porter was treated as iA out-patient at the hospital last night for facial injuries sustained as a result of the breaking of the front forks of a , bicycle" he was riding. (PBES9 ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) February 3. The body of one of the men" washed seaward. from Castle Point on Sunday ■ was recovered to-day near Whakataki. It has not ;yet been identified. 1 GORE, February 8. , ..Mi's. Richard Paul], wife of a wellfcnown resident pf Gore and formerly Wyndham, ■ had a paralytic stroke . this afternoon and • died wftbin an Hour. , INVfeRCAEGIIiL, February 3. A motor-cyclist, J. O'Halloran, a labourer,. single, collided with a traiii at a level crossing, suffering severe injuries to his head and body. ' He was operated on at the hospital. His condition is-critical.