A NAPIER STREET ACCIDENT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 201, 11 August 1911, Page 5

A NAPIER STREET ACCIDENT

MR. P. J. b TEW ART RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS.

While Mr. P. J. Stewart, head of the storage department at Niven and Co.’s, Port Ahuriri, was cycling dow-n Shakespeare road, on the Port side, at about 11.30 last evening, he fell off his bicycle and sustained concussion of the brain. Mr. Stew-art, it seems, had ridden his bicycle which had no brakes and had a free w-eel gear, down the greater part of Shakespeare road and seemed to have had his machine under perfect control. At the steep grade near the bottom of the road and just above the Old Shakespeare Hotel, the handles twisted, and Mr. Stew-art was thrown to the ground. Mr. Firth, one of Niven’s employees, who happened to be in the vicinity? picked up the unconscious man and found that blood was flowing freely from a gash on his forehad. He, with Mr. Peary and -several others, rendered first aid and after some time succeeded in getting Dr. Harvey to attend to the injured man. The ambulance was caded out and Mr. Stewart was removed to the Hospital. Inquiry at that institution this morning elicited the information that Stewart was suffering from concussion of the brain and was still unconscious, although better tnan he was w-hen first admitted.

MR. FRIIS’ CONDITION IMPROVED. Inquiry at the Napier Hopital tins morning elicited the information that Mr. hriis, w-ho was injured by the shaft of a gig striking him on the chest while going to his work yesterday, is much better than vvhen he first entered the Hospital.