ACCIDENT NEAR NELSON
MOTOR-TRUCK GOBS OVER BANK. BOY’B SKULL FRACTURED. Per Press Association. NELSON, September 12. While being driven home in a motortruck from a Home Mission festival at Riwakar a party of children from the Whakarewa Orphanage, together with the manager, Mr Stewart, met with an unfortunate accident with serious oonaequenoas to one of them'. When Approaching Motueka bridge a motor-car, going in Hie same direction. attempted to pass the trnok. In doing so the track was struck on one of the wheels, causing it to slide over a bank, a distance of eight or nine feet. All the occupants were thrown in some gorse which fringes the roadside, but fortunately the thick undergrowth broke the fall somewhat, and also impeded the desoent of the truck. All the children but one, Guy Bourne, aged 14, were got oat with only braises and soratches, but it was found that Bourne had met with more serious injuries. Hie Bishop of Nelson, who was on his way to Nelson! from the festival, conveyed the injured lad to Dr Deck where, after receiving attention, he was ordered to berreinoved to the Nelson Hospital. The iboy was found to be suffering from a slight fracture of the base or the skull. On inquiry at the hospital to-day it was learnt that the lad was making progress towards recovery.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11933, 13 September 1924, Page 4
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