KILLED ON HIGHWAY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19657, 15 June 1938, Page 5

KILLED ON HIGHWAY

MRS. E. J. RIDDIFORD lower hutt tragedy (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Fatal head injuries were received by Mrs. Eleanor Caroline Riddrford, the widow of Mr. Edward Joshua Riddiford, when she was knocked down by a van while crossing the road to her home at Lower Hutt at about 5.40 o’clock last evening. Mrs. Riddiford was unconscious when picked up and died at her home two hours later without regaining consciousness. Mrs. Riddiford, who was a daughter of an early Wellington pioneer, the late Mr. Henry Runny, former Deputy-Superintendent of the Wellington Province, was born in lßoi. She married in 1879, and with the exception of a few years in England, lived all her life at Lower Hutt. Mrs. Riddiford \yas well known for her acts of charity. During the Great War she did great service at Walton-on-Thames, London. Mrs. Riddiford is survived by a brother, Mr. E. P. Bunny, of Lower Hutt and an adult family of five, Mrs. Lindsay, of Scotland, Mr. Daniel Riddiford, of Featherston, Mr. Eric Riddiford, of Orongo Orongo, Mrs. Liddiard, of England, and Mrs. Dudley Kettle, of Napier. Two sons, Mr. Vivian Riddiford and Mr. Lionel Riddiford, predeceased her.