INQUEST AT TIMARU
COMMENT BY CORONER (SPECIAL TO THE PRESS.) TIMARU, February 5. After the Grand Jury had returned a no bill in the case before the Supreme Court, in which James Colquhoun Kay was charged with negligent driving of a motor-car, causing the death of Thomas Waitc, and with negligent driving causing bodily injury to Waite and to a youth named Stalker, the coroner. Mr A. Lawrence Gee, gave his verdict that Waite died in hospital on November 16 from ruemorrhage and shock as the result of a collision between a motor-cycle he was riding and a motor-car driven by Kay. He added a rider that it would appear from the evidence of Dr. Hartnell that while those who conveyed Waite to hospital did so from the best of motives, and were to be commended for doing what they thought to be in the best interests of the injured man, yet m cases of badly fractured limbs it was advisable, if at all possible, to procure the assistance of a medical practitioner or an ambulance so that the limb could be put into splints before the removal of the patient.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21391, 6 February 1935, Page 12
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191INQUEST AT TIMARU Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21391, 6 February 1935, Page 12
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