A BAD WEEK-END

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 122, 26 May 1930, Page 10

A BAD WEEK-END

SMASHES IN TARANAKI

RUNAWAY. AT AUCKLAND

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

NEW PLYMOUTH, 25th May

Eeturning from a dance, a car driven by Norman Coburu, leader of a dance orchestra, collided with a stationary car in Gill street, with the result that he and three others wero injured. Coburn, who is a musician in business as a music dealer at Opunake, had the base of his skull fractured.

The others are Miss Gwen Biloy, aged IS (concussion and shock), Miss Elwyn Riley, dancing teacher (bruises and shock), and Miss Zita Braund (■bruises and shock). All three belong to New Plymouth. Both cars were badly smashed.

Nine other smashes occurred in New Plymouth and district during the weekend. One cause was the heavy motor traffic occasioned by the match between the British visiting Bugby team and Taranaki.

A light oar driven by D. C. Candish, and a heavier one driven by J. H. Moody, collided at an intersection. The light car landed upside down on a footpath, and the two occupants, with great good fortune, escaped with only slight cuts. A two-year-old child, Lester Gates, received severe head injuries in a collision at Tariki. » He is in Hospital, but improving. In the remaining cases the injuries were slight. A heavy car belonging to F. P. Grundy was removed from a street in front of his garage, and late last night was found on the main soutli road 15 miles away completely, burned.