MOTORING MISHAPS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 October 1928, Page 4

MOTORING MISHAPS

MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED. 'Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, September 30. Finlay McGillivray, aged 19, of West Plains, died in the Southland Hospital on Saturday night, from injuries which he received in a collision between a motor cycle which he was riding and a lorry. The accident occurred on Friday evening, and McGillivray was admitted to the hospital suffering from an injury to the jaw, a fracture of the leg and. a fractured elbow.

BOY’S BROKEN LEG.

DUNEDIN, September 30.

John Webster, aged 14 years, residing at Green Island, was knocked down by a motor cycle on the Main South Road at Green Island last night, and he received a fractured leg. He was admitted to the hospital. < 1

AUCKLAND BANDITS.

AUCKLAND, September 29.

Mt. Eden Road in. the vicinity of the railway station was the scene of a sensational hold-up by two motor bandits at ten o’clock on Friday night. They escaped in a motor car, after brandishing a revolver and threatening to shoot George T. Pearce (clothier and mercer) and his wife, who were en route to their home at Mt. Eden. In the darkness, one man grabbed an attache case from Mrs Pearce. Almost immediately another man attacked her husband, striking him. Mr Pearce recovered in time to see the assailants running across the road to an unlit car. Following quickly he jumped on to the running board. One man tried to get the car going, while his companion produced a revolver and pointed it at Pearce’s head. He said: “Get off, or I’ll shoot you!” Mr Pearce stepped off and the car dashed off at a high speed. This morning the car was found abandoned. It had been stolen. The attache case contained over £5 in cash.

CYCLIST KILLED.

NELSON, September 30.

G. A. Harkness, formerly Chief Inspector of Schools at Nelson, died at the Hospital this morning as a result of injuries received through a collision with a service car while cycling in Waimea Street on Saturday.

DEAD ON ROAD?

DUNEDIN, October 1.

Aubrey Larkins, 32, married, employed in'a city dye works, was found dead on the road near Wakari yesterday, with a motor cycle alongside. An accident had apparently occurred when negotiating a curve. INTOXICATED DRIVER. WANGANUI, September 29. v Thomas G. Aitkin, motor salesman, was fined £25, and his license was cancelled, for intoxication when m charge of a motor car. “NO ROYAL RIGHT.” CHRISTCHURCH, October 1. “Motorists have no royal right to the road at all,” said Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Cqurt today, in delivering judgment in a dangerous driving case. “There is too., much of that feeling among motorists in Christchurch. Pedestrians have the 'same right to the road as have motorI'ists, especially at recognised interUsections. We would all wish that (pedestrian traffic were controlled like motor traffic.” The Magistrate’s remarks followed on the hearing of the case in which William Alexander Welsh was charged 'with driving a motor car over the Bank of New Zealand intersection, in a manner dangerous to the public. Defendant was fined 20s with costs.