ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
BOY KILLED. (Per United Press Association.) MASTERTON. May 4. Neville George Thorner, aged seven years, was fatally injured at Waihora, near Pirinoa (Martinborough) to-day. The lad was apparently caught in the machinery of a milking plant and whirled round, suffering a fractured skull and a broken leg. He died about two and hours and a-hal£ later. His father is a share-milker on the property. TWO MOTOR CAR FATALITIES. (Special to Daily Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 4. Two deaths' following injuries received through collision with motor cars occurred in the Hospital to-day. John Joseph Rock was crossing the road near his home at 7 p.m. on April 9, when he was hit by a motor car. . He died this morning. Patrick Newnham, a motor cyclist, aged 17, who suffered serious injuries to his head and back when he came into collision with a motor car on the Riccarton road last evening, died shortly after noon.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20400, 5 May 1928, Page 12
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