CAR OVERTURNS

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27339, 3 May 1954, Page 8

CAR OVERTURNS

THREE PERSONS INJCM (New -Ceaiana Pres* AisocMfflea/J NEW PLYMOUTH, MeyJl Three persons were injured IM the car in which they were triiM overturned on the main New ll mouth-Wanganui highway on Sen day afternoon. i Two of the in jured persons al patients in the Patea Hospital M are:— Mrs Agnes Roche, aged 32,1 Waitotara; injuries to left 1 condition satisfactory; and 1 Mrs Charlotte Kingi, aged Waitotara; lacerations to than leg; condition satisfactory. Miss Margaret Nihaka, ag'id S,| Waitotara, injured her right hand,] was discharged from hospital ■ treatment. | The driver of the car waajtoi Wiki, a freezing works empMon,| Patea. He was not injured. [ MAN UNCONSCIODj IN DITCH | ■ ' ? Wr DEATH BEFORE ARRIVE OF MEDICAL AID (New Zealand Press AssocMtMii | WANGANUI, Mtj] An elderly man who was toted] conscious in a ditch id KsteM road, Wanganui, this afternoon, 4 before medical aid arrived. He Hori Taari Jury, aged 78, an ihztet] the Jubilee Old People’s M Wanganui. When he was found by two paw by, Mr Jury was lying on his ba} and was almost immersed in watej Police investigations have revaj that Mr Jury attended the WoocM race meeting yesterday, and retiirt to Wanganui at 7.30 P-m. It is j known how long he had been in 1 ditch, or how he got there.

CYCLIST KILLED DI COLLISION (New Zealand Press AUCKLAND, MayJ A cyclist, Frederick John Gecn aged 63, a carpenter, of Angle sw Onehunga, was killed instantly he collided with a car at the coj of - Princess street and Rowe siOnehunga, on Saturday afternoon., GIRL’S BODY, FOUM IN HARBOUR (New Zealand Press Assoctaw TAURANGA, The body of an 18-year<>w ! was recovered by the Taurangs f rom the upper reaches of Harbour shortly after 8 pjnday. The body was later that of Parehaka (or Patridjl) a daughter of Mr E. Cairn Judea - n The body was seen m weeus the shore by Mr O. R. -F* j ' Tauranga, who was brawling * harbour. A police party wen : and after some difficulty - oun body in the dark > An inquest will be neio i into the deaths of Miss Cairn » Materipo Toi-toi, both of 4 ; believed to have been I falling from the railway briage Saturday night.

MOTOR-CYCLIST BADI INJURED (New Zealand Press AUCKLAND,J”* Henry Leslie Johnson, sgp freezing worker. of Mangere. fractured his skuj* * motor-cycle skidded on tne bridge on Saturday. He was * c to the Auckland Hospital »■ tion is critical. 'J. MOTOR-CYCLIST BRfl LEG (From Our Own TIMARU, M»' Ronald McManus, aged Zu-g mer Springs, suffered a fracwL when his motor-cycle was ( a collision with a car in Timaru, about 6.30 P to fl Mr McManus was admitted w maru Public Hospital, where * dition tonight is re P°, rte ~_ f | ti factory. His motor-cycle an were damaged. j** ’