ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22796, 23 August 1939, Page 10

ACCIDENTS

PEDESTRIAN KILLED STRUCK BY CAR WHILE CROSSING STREET' (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEOJtAM.) WELLINGTON, August 22. While crossing the. parade at Island Bay at 6.30 this evening, Vivian Claude Parker, of Devonshire road,. Miramar, a married man with one child, was struck by a motor-car and suffered head injuries from which he died almost immediately. Parker was a barman employed at the Shamrock Hotel. FALL OYER CLIFF ‘ FORMER JOCKEY’S DEATH (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) GISBORNE, August 22. , While:.’ returning from, a visit ftb; a; friend at Whareongaonga on Sunday afternoon, a former jockey, Francis Charles Porter;-; aged 52. ' a widower, employed by the Public Works Department, fell from a path on the side of a steep cliff and dropped 600 feet to his death. , . . Porter was not noticed to be missing until Monday evening when, with Constable Andrew, a search was made. A sack found on the track gave an indication of the . whereabouts of Porter and searchers went to the oottom of 'a steep face and there found his body. The task of the searchers was a difficult one, and after bringing the body to the. track by means of ropes, it was necessary to carry it on a stretcher three and a half miles to send it to Gisborne. Porter was formerly well known as a jockey and had ridden some champions of the New Zealand turf, notably Count Cavour. He is survived by one married daughter. INJURED IN SOTOR COLLISION When his car collided with another at the corner of Marshland road and Shirley road .late yesterday afternoon, Mr A. D. Brooker, of Bealey avenue, suffered head injuries and shock. He was admitted to the Public Hospital. CYCLIST HURT Alexander Jones was treated as an put-patient at the Public Hospital after having suffered minor injuries to his head and nose, which he received iVhen his bicycle collided , with, a motor-car at the corner of Manchester street and Armagh street yesterday.