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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 November 1933, Page 7

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AUCKLAND MOTOR CRASHES

PASSENGERS INJURED

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AUCKLAND, November 8.

Suffering from cuts about the face and shock, a young woman, Phyllis Radley, living at 47 East Street, Newton, was admitted to the hospital at an early hour this morning. Her condition is not serious.

Miss Radley was found shortly before midnight, almost unconscious, in the front seat of a sedan motor car, which had crashed into a safety sone outside the Colonial Mutual Building in Queen Street. When the police arrived, there was no sign of the driver or other occupants of the car, but they were located later. Another more serious accident, in which three people were injured, occurred at Point Chevalier, shortly before one o’clock, this morning, when a car collided with a milk float, ami ran down a 20ft. bank into Oakley Creek gully. Two men in the car suffered concussion, and a woman passenger was injured about the head. The occupants of the car were Jack Rua Coath, aged 23, 31 Epsom Avenue; Kerr Taylor, aged 36, of Avondale, and Miss June Mackenzie, of Birkenhead. The condition of the two men is considered to be serious.

MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED.

AUCKLAND, November 7

A motor cyclist, William Charles Langton, aged 22, of Onehunga, was killed in a collision with a motor lorry at Westfield this evening.

Langton was employed as a fellmonger at R. and W. Hellaby’s works. His machine collided head-on with a large lorry. It struck the right-hand side of the bumper. Langton was crushed against the side of the radiator. When picked up he was dead. Tho deceased, who was single, resided with his parents. He was the chief wage-earner in the family, his father having been unemployed for a considerable period.

LINESMAN’S FALL.

CHRISTCHURCH, November 7. While working on an electric power pole at Islington to-day, Lancelot Edward Cooke, married, of Templeton, came in contact with an 11,000 volt transmission line, and he received a severe shock, also falling 30 feet to the ground. Ho was removed to the hospital, in a serious condition. WOMAN’S SUDDEN DEATH. CHRISTCHURCH, November 7. Miss Ada Courage, sister of Mr F. H. Courage, of “Seadown” Station, Amberley, who had been living for some time in Christchurch, died suddenly early this afternoon after falling and hitting her head on the footpath outside the Regent Theatre in Cathedral Square. A St. John Free Ambulance was summoned and conveyed the woman to the Christchurch Hospital, but she was dead on arrival.