ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 January 1929, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MOTOK.-GYCLLST KILLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 4. Ratal injuries were sustained by Hector Neil Millar, aged 27, manager of British Cycles Limited, as the result of a collision between a motor cycle he was riding and a light motor truck in ■ Anzac Avenue this evening. The motor cycle, which was proceeding down Anzac Avenue ”at a moderate pace, struck the rear portion of the truck, throwing Millar heavily on the roadway. His injuries proved fatal before the hospital was reached. Millar, who resided with his mother, was well known in motor cycling circles. BO V DROWNED AT FT. AHLTRI.RL NAPIER, Jan. 4. ! A tragic drowning accident 'occurred at Port Aliuriri early this afternoon when a nine-year-old boy named Alfred Caney, while playing with companions I on tiie wharf at the entrance to the inner harbour, slipped into the tide and was swept away "before help could be obtained. Dragging operations were continued till late to-night. The child had been sent by his mother with his father’s lunch. This lie delivered and then was evidently attracted ( *>y two companions fishing from the > wharf. No clear account is given of how the mishap occurred. FATAL (STREET ACCIDENT. AUCKLAND, Jan. 4. | Desmond Charles Josephs, aged four years, died in hospital to-night from injuries sustained when the child was struck by a bus on the New North Road an hour earlier. The boy 'lived with his parents in Ethel Street, Edendale.