In connection with the accidental death ifi Blenheim on Easter Monday of Mr. Charles W. Martin, ex-president of the Newtown Bowling Club, it is related that the deceased and other bowlers were walking into town from the bowling green where they had been playing. They were well on llieir way when a motor .ear passed slowly by. Tri a spirit of pure fun (the motor car being well laden) Mr, Martin sat on one of the rear bumpers, and the ear proceeded to town. It was in rounding the bandstand in order to draw up to the hotel door from the proper side, that Mr. Martin, evidently unprepared for the swerve, was thrown from his precarious seat and hurled against a post. He was struck on the forehead and never regained conscioyisness, death being caused by concussion of the brain.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16923, 11 April 1929, Page 8
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