DEATH OF BOY
Lorry-Driver Charged With Negligence
By Telegraph— Press Association
New Plymouth, August 9. When a motor-lorry and motor milkfloat collided on an intersection on May 12, a schoolboy, Donald Charles Mavor, who as a milk delivery boy was riding a cycle and holding on to the float, was crushed between the vehicles and killed instantly. The driver of the lorry. Leo Marshall Gray, faced a charge of negligent driving, causing death, in the Supreme Court to-day. Comment, was made on the practice of allowing delivery boys on cycles to be “towed” by floats. Evidence for the proseetion was not concluded when the court adjourned till to-morrow.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 269, 10 August 1938, Page 13
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