ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
A CARTER DROWNED (Pkb United Press Association.! HOKITIKA, February 24. While engaged in carting from Okarito to Five Mile yesterday evening William Matthews, single, aged about 33 years, got into difliculties at Three Milo Creek and wag drowned. The body was later recovered. He had no known relatives in New Zealand. A FATAL COLLISION MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED. (Per United Press association i CHRISTCHURCH, February 24. Through a motor cycle and side-car in which he was riding overturning as the result of colliding with a cyclist in Woolston (Christchurch) last evening, Cecil Clive Middleton, aged 25, of New Brighton, was killed, ami Inspector S. Napper, of the Heathcote County Council, was slightly injured. Middleton was the son of Mr C. T. Middleton, town clerk of New Brighton. By a coincidence, Mr Middleton lost his other son in a motor cycle accident on the same night last year. When the motor cycle was righted Middleton was found to be dead. Inspector Napper suffered a fractured nose and facial abrasions. The cyclist, Sydney Virtue, escaped with slight injuries.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21578, 25 February 1932, Page 10
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