CHILD KNOCKED DOWN BY MOTOR-CAR

Southland Times, Issue 23680, 1 December 1938, Page 6

CHILD KNOCKED DOWN BY MOTOR-CAR

EVIDENCE AT INQUEST (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 30. “The girl ran into the motor-car. She ran across the road from the back of a tram,” said a witness at the inquest on Joyce Mabie Pointon, aged 12, who was knocked down by a motor-car near Chilka street, suffering injuries from which she died. The driver of the motor-car, Ronald Keith Mitchell, said he was travelling about 15 miles an hour and as he came level with an approaching tram, which had just previously stopped, the girl ran out from behind the tramcar and struck his mudguard. In returning a verdict that -he girls death was caused by injuries in a collision with a motor-car, the Coroner, Mr E. L. Gilbertson, remarked that the child was perhaps hurried and was not looking out. PUBLIC WORKS EMPLOYEE INJURED (United Press Association) WESTPORT, November 30. When a charge of gelignite exploded today when he was tamping a hole, John Penberth, aged 21, a married man emplbyed by the Public Works Department on the Buller-Inangahua railway, was injured and removed to the Buller Hospital. The tamping rod blew out and his head, face and right arm suffered considerably. His condition tonight is fair. DEATH FROM SEVERE HEAD INJURIES (United Press' Association) PALMERSTOFf NORTH, Nov. 30. The death occurred in the hospital of Leslie James Bovey, aged 22, of Levin, as the result of severe head injuries suffered when his motor-cycle collided with a power pole at Weraroa on Sunday morning.