INQUEST CONCLUDES
’Piie inquest into the death of Alexander Cameron, retired farmer, Kaiwarra, who was fatally injured when he was knocked down by a motor-cycle on the Hutt Road on March 12. was concluded on Thursday morning. The coroner. Mr. Giiliertsou, found that Cameron died in the Bowen Street Hospital on March 13 through injuries received when he was struck by a motor-cycle ridden by Raymond Jack Pearce. Peter John Hogg, commercial traveller, said lie considered the lighting to be very bad at the part of the road where the accident occurred. Harold Egmont Young, another eye-wit-ness of the accident, who was not present at the inquest, said in a statement to the police, that a car passed Cameron just before the accident, having to swerve to avoid him. and that Cameron had been looking at the car when he was hit by the motor-cycle.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 154, 27 March 1937, Page 10
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