YOUTH KILLED

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27670, 28 May 1955, Page 6

YOUTH KILLED

- INJURIES INFLICTED BY ROLLING LOG (New Zealand Press Association) NAPIER, May A youth was killed when he wi« trimming pine trees on the TaihapeNapier road this morning. He was

Jack Tamaiti Cooper, aged 20, lieved to be from North Auckland. i * Death was apparently caused by head injuries when a log rolled on Mr Cooper.

TWO MEN INJURED CYCLE AND MOTORCYCLE COLLIDE (New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, May Two men were iniured, one of seriously, in a collision between J motor-cycle and a bicycle 03 FL Ravensbourne road, Dunedin, evening. The motor-cyclist, Colin Maroona Todd, aged 28, a lecturer m chemistry at the Otago Medical Scnou suffered severe head injuries. .. The cyclist, WiUiam Heniy EchW of Kiwi street. St. Leonards, J un ®, concussion and a suspected 'raciJ of the left shoulder. thf Both men were admitted W Dunedin Public Hospital. Mr condition was later reported to J. improved, and that of Mr Eckhow satisfactory. ... the Mr Todd was a botanist wl *s. lirD New Zealand Himalayan expeui last year.

CYCLIST SERIOUSLY INJURED

A cyclist was seriously injured evening when he was struck oy a at the corner of Watts road ana M South road. He is Archie Bailey, of 25 Watts road, The driver of the car was oy Q Saxon, of 283 Armagh street. .. Mr Bailey was taken to the ' tn church Public Hospital by a , s * ambulance, and was admitted a* p.m. Late last evening he was ported to be unconscious and on seriously ill list.