KNOCKED DOWN BY VAN.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 June 1938, Page 7

KNOCKED DOWN BY VAN.

MRS. E. C. RIDDIFORD DIES FROM INJURIES. GREAT SERVICE DURING WAR fßy Telegraph —Press AssociationWELLINGTON, Last Night. Fatal head injuries were received by Mrs. Eleanor Caroline Riddiford, widow of Edward Joshua Riddiford, when she was knocked down by a van while crossing the road to her home at Lower Hutt at about 5.40 this evening. Mrs. Riddiford was unconscious when picked up and died at her home two hours later without regaining con-, sciousness.

Mrs. Riddiford, who was the daughter of an early Wellington pioneer, the late Henry Bunny, former deputySuperintendent of the Wellington province, was born in 1861. She married in 1879 and with the exception of a few years in England lived all her life at Lower Hutt. Mrs. Riddiford was well known for her acts of' charity. During the war she did great service at Walton-on-Thames 7 and London. Mrs. Riddiford is survived by her brother, Mr. E. P. Bunny, of Lower Hutt, and an adult family of five —Mrs. Lindsay (Scotland), Mr! Daniel Riddiford (Featherston), Mr. Erie Riddiford '(Orongo Orongo), Mrs. Liddiard (England) and Mrs. Dudley Kettle (Napier). iTwo sons, Mr. Vivian Riddiford and IMr. Lionel Riddiford, predeceased her.