DEATH IN STREET

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19126, 22 September 1936, Page 13

DEATH IN STREET

N.Z. MAN IN SYDNEY MYSTERY TO MOTHER (Por Press Association.) ('ll RTsTl'l 1 URCJI, this day. No light can be thrown on tlu> death, of Mr. Avon Alexander West, whose body was found in a street of a Sydney suburb on Friday, by his mother, Mr*. F. F. West, of (.'lilistclitircli. Her son was a painter, and formerly was employed by Genera! Motors, Limited, at .Petone. He had been ill on the 'boat on the way to Australia, said Mrs. West to-dav.

A cabin message received from Sydney on Saturday stated that uu injury received in New Zealand about a mouth previously was believed to have caused the death on Friday of Mr. Avon Alexander West, aged 24 years,

who arrived in Australia three weeks ago. Mr. West’s body was found in ,a street of the suburb of Waterloo. A few minutes earlier lie had been seen walking along Hie street dressed in pyjamas ami tin. overcoat and evidently in pain. A Government medical officer found that ho died from a fractured skull, although there was no external fracture. Mr. West, who was thought to have been a boxer in New Zealand, had complained of feeling ill both on 1 lie trip over and since his arrival, allhough lie Intel been working every day.