MOTOR TRUCK UPSET

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 September 1924, Page 5

MOTOR TRUCK UPSET

CHILDREN’S MISADVENTURE.

(Per Press Association.)

NELSON, Sept. 12.

While being driven home in a motor truck from a Home Mission Festival at Riwaka, a party of children from Whakarewa Orphanage, together with the manager, Mr Stewart, met with an accident, with serious consequences to one of them, when approaching Motueka Bridge. A motor car going in the same direction attempted to pass the truck. In doing so, the truck -was struck by one of the wheels, causing it to slide over a bank, a distance of eight or nine feet. All the occupants were thrown into the adjacent gorse, which fringes the roadside, but fortunately thick undergrowth broke the fall somewhat, and also, impeded the descent of the truck. All the children but one, Guy Bourne, aged 14 years, were got out with only bruises and scratches, but it was found that Bourne had met with more serious injuries. The Bishop of Nelson, who was on his way to Nelson from th e Festival, conveyed the injured lad to Dr. Deck, where, after' -receiving attention, he was ordered to be removed to the Nelson Hospital. He was found to be suffering from a slight fracture of the base of the skull. On inquiry at the hospital to-day, it was learnt that the lad is making progress towards recovery.