ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 April 1925, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FELL FROM TRAIN. (by TELEGRAPH I’RK.SS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, April 13. A fatality occurred near the EJlerslie railway station shortly after , six o’clock to-night, John Savage, of Papatoetoe, being killed through falling from a train. Apparently no one witnessed the fall, but it is assumed that Savage boarded the outward bound train from the races. The body was later found near the railway track. TWO CYCLISTS KILLED. MASTELRTON, April 13. While cycling without a light from Greytown to Morrison’s Bush on Saturday evening, Victor Stanley Nicholson aged 21, a bank clerk employed by the Bank of New Zealand in Wellington, collided with a car driven by Mr. Delatour, a dentist, of Wellington, who was proceeding from the Wairarapa races. In the glare of an approaching car the cyclist was not seen by Delatour, whose car knocked him down. Nicholson suffered a severe injury to the head and' died in the Greytown hospital at midnight on Sunday. CHRISTCHURCH, April 13. ‘ Frederick Pratt, a retired solicitor, aged 64 and a widower, while cycling home in the heavy rain on Saturday evening, was knocked down by a motor car and killed.