STRAYING HORSES

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 October 1928, Page 6

STRAYING HORSES

CAUSE MOTOR FATALITY.

(Press Association.)

ROTORUA, October 2. The Coroner’s Court, before Mr W. L. Richards, J.P., and a jury of four, was occupied all day-on the adjourned inquest on Hare Wirihake, who died as the result of injuries received bytire capsizing of a Public Works lorry on the Whakatane Road on September--10. Mr W. Gillies (Hamilton) watched the case on behalf of the Public Works Department. Pohimiro’s evidence was given that the three occupants of the lorry were going out to a Public M' orks road repairing job. 'They were to have left in the ea”i-ly morning, but did not leave until late in the afternoon. They spent mudh of the day visiting various public houses. The evidence of the driver of the lorry showed that the accident- was caused by swerving to avoid some stray horses.

Witnesses testified to his sober condition after the accident. The Coroner stressed the danger of stray horses, which have become a menace to human lifeThe verdict was that deceased met his death by the overturning of a lorry, no blame being attachable to the driver, and the Court added a strong rider that the County Council’s attention be drawn to the danger of stray horses on public highways.