INQUEST OPENED
An inquest was opened yesterday afternoon into the death of Alexander Cameron, aged 75, retired farmer, Kaiwarra, who was fatally injured when he was knocked down by a motor-cycle on the Hutt Road on March 12. Evidence was given that at about 8 p.m., Raymond Jack Pearce, shop assistant, was riding bis motor-cycle northward along the Hutt Road with John Joseph Langley Pearce on the pillion seat when the cycle struck Cameron, who was crossing from the east to the west side of the road underneath a street light. Pearce said he was travelling well on the correct side of the road at about 15 miles an hour. They' bad travelled very slowly through Kaiwarra, and the cycle was only beginning to regain speed. The inquest was adjourned until 11.30 to-day to enable the evidence of Peter John Hogg, an eye-witness of the accident, to be heard.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 153, 25 March 1937, Page 17
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149INQUEST OPENED Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 153, 25 March 1937, Page 17
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