Four Hurt When Car Hits Pole

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28821, 16 February 1959, Page 10

Four Hurt When Car Hits Pole

(New Zeaiana Press Association) TIMARU, February 15. Four persons were taken to hospital after the car in which they were travelling struck a telegraph pole in King street at 2.5 a.m. today. Mrs Robin McGeorge, of Ngapara, was admitted with concussion and a cut lip, and Robert McGeorge, of Harper street, Timaru, with concussion and lacerations of the face. The driver, Walter Douglas Leonard McGeorge, of Ngapara, and Basil Ewart Castleton, of North street, Timaru, had cuts and bruises attended to at the outpatients’ department. Mrs McGeorge was discharged this afternoon. Popular Excursion The first Auckland-Rotorua excursion train for 26 years on Saturday was “an unqualified success," said the Rotorua public relations officer, Mr H. A. Spurdie, yesterday. The Rotorua Tourist League end Mr Spurdie organised the trip with the Railways Department. “I think the department is sure tq. run further excursions,” said Mr Spurdie. It would be suggested to the department that future excursions should leave Auckland at 11 p.m., arriving at Rotorua about 7 a.m. the following day. Saturday’s train arrived at Rotorua at 1245 p.m.. and left again at 6.15 p.m. Only five of the 672 people who booked for the trip did not travel. -(P.A.)