Toll of the Highway

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 47, 26 February 1936, Page 4

Toll of the Highway

Cyclist Knocked Over

Batch of Fatal Accidents

SCHOOL CHILDREN VICTIMS

Per Press Association,

AUCKLAND, Last Night,

Fatal injuries were received by a schoolboy, Ralph Atha, aged 11, sou of Mr and Mrs J. O. Athu, of Westfield, at Otahuhu, when he was run over by a largo passenger bus. Tho lad crossed the road from the school gateway and passed close behind one bus and it is thought ho slipped in the path of a backing bus. The rear wheel passed over the boy’s pelvis and back.

Schoolgirl Killed

Per Press Association.

GISBORNE, Last Night. While returning to Haiti School (Gisborne) after lunch hour yesterday a six-year-old girl, Jenncfer Welham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Welham, was knocked down by a ear receiving head injuries which resulted iu her death this afternoon. The ear was driven by Air. A. H, Jackman, Arakelii Station.

Two Pedestrians Succumb To Injuries

Per Press Association.

AUCKLAND, Feb. 25,

Knocked down by a taxi on College Hill on Sunday evening, Donald R. McKenzie, aged 65, works manager of the New Zealand Sun Newspaper, Auckland, died in hospital this morning from head injuries, fracture of both legs and shock. Ho joined the staff in 1905. He was a keen yachtsman and bowler. Deceased leaves a widow and three daughters.

The death also occurred at the hospital this morning of J, W. Beeston, an elderly pedestrian, who was struck by a car on Manukau Road on Sunday.

Killed While Trying to Retrieve Cap

AUCKLAND, Last Night,

A gunner in the Royal New Zealand Artillery, Hamilton Roland Dean Freeman Thompson, aged 22, was killed this afternoon when ho fell from tho running board of a Post and Telegraph Department lorry at Devonport. The accident occurred when Thompson was returning from Narrow Neck camp to tho artillery barracks at North Head. He was seated in tho cab of the lorry beside tho driver wffio was a Post and Telegraph-Department employee. Another departmental lorry was travelling ahead with two artillerymen who were sitting with their backs to the cab. As the second lorry approached the corner one of the two men lost his cap which was blown off ,on to the road, Thompson stepped out of the cab on to the running board to retrieve the cap and his feet apparently slipped for ho fell and rulleu under the wheels being killed almost instantly.

Norman Hardman, aged SS, of 6 Ashley street, Palmerston North, while riding a bicycle to work yesterday, was run into by a motor car. He suffered head injuries and abrasions on the right leg. Later he was admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital and last evening his condition was satisfactory