4 ROAD DEATHS

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30938, 20 December 1965, Page 1

4 ROAD DEATHS

Four persons died as a result of accidents on New Zealand roads at the week-end, one after he lay sleeping in the middle of a main highway.

The man, asleep in the middle of the highway about four miles south of Te Araroa, died after he was run over by a passing car on Saturday night, the Press Association reports. He was Hirai Te Ngahue, aged 27. single, a farm hand, of Te Araroa. Mr Te Ngahue suffered severe head and internal injuries and died on the way to hospital. Police Mid he had travelled by car to visit people in a house near where he was killed. He apparently got out of the car, wandered on to the road and fell asleep. Died Of Injuries A youth, Injured in a motorcycle accident at Thames on Saturday, died in Thames Hospital yesterday. He was Barry Julian Francis Goodwin, aged 18, a panelbeater. of 207 Grey street, Thames. Robert William Autridge, aged 17, was taken to Thames Hospital, treated for minor injuries. and discharged.

Australian Eagioywet. The number of people tn civilian employment in Australia rose by 8200 to 3,821300 during October. However; employment tn manufacturing industrissfoH fewiUHMb in September to 1343.100 in October.—Canberra, Dec. 19.

The motor-cycle the youths were riding was involved in a collision with a car. Killed Instantly

A man was killed instantly in a collision between a truck and .car at the foot of Ngarimu Hill, three miles south of Ruatoria, about 3.30 p.m. on Friday. He was William Mulligan, aged 55, a dairy farmer, of Makarika. married, with five children. Mr Mulligan’s car was extensively damaged. The truck was slightly damaged about the front Tokoroa Fatality Tokoroa police have released the name of a man who was killed on the main highway in Tokoroa on Friday night when he was struck by a car. He was: DesaMerf Henry Cyril Beckford, aged 42, a workman, of Kinleith. The man's companion, Arthur Weki, also of Tokoroa, was admitted to Waikato Hospital with a fractured hip and concussion.- . Seriously Hurt Two Gisborne youths suffered serious head and face injuries when their car hit a

telephone pole at Waerenga-o-Kuri, 25 miles north of Gisborne, at 9 p.m. on Saturday. They are Reid Fletcher, aged 18, and Mathew Bridson. aged 19. Both are in hospital in satisfactory condition. Rounding a bend, their car left the road, smashing the pole off at ground level. The mishap cut all telephones in the district for several hours. Fell From Car Roof A Wellington youth, Mr P. Jones, fractured his skull on Saturday when he fell from the roof of a car travelling slowly in Queen Elizabeth Park, Paekakariki. Wellington Hospital reported his condition as fair late yesterday afternoon.