CAR STRIKES TWO PEDESTRIANS

Southland Times, Issue 23791, 13 April 1939, Page 6

CAR STRIKES TWO PEDESTRIANS

MAN DIES ON WAY TO HOSPITAL

SISTER-IN-LAW SERIOUSLY INJURED (United Press Association) WANGANUI, April 12. Two pedestrians were struck by a motor-car on the main Wanganui-New Plymouth highway, a mile north of Waverley, at 4.30 p.m. today. One died when being taken to the Patea Hospital and the other was admitted to hospital in a serious condition. A three-year-old child being wheeled in a push-chair escaped injury. They were: DEAD William Ellis, single, aged 27, a labourer employed by the Petone Borough Council. INJURED Mrs Hilda Ellis, aged about 32, of Waverley, sister-in-law of Ellis, who is suffering from a severe wound in the head and concussion. Her condition is serious. Ellis arrived in Waverley by service car at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, intending to spend a week’s holiday with his brother, who lives at the Waverley racecourse and works for Bremer Bros. He was met by Mrs Ellis, who had with her her three-year-old daughter in a push chair. Ellis and Mrs Ellis were walking outwards from Waverley on the way home and a mile north of the township they were overtaken by a car driven by G. A. Streat, of Victoria street, Dargaville, who, with his wife and three children, was on his way home. The sun was low in the west at the time and glaring. Ellis and Mrs Ellis were struck by the car, but the child in the pushchair escaped. Ellis, whose head and back were severely injured, died before the ambulance reached the Patea Hospital. His sister-in-law was admitted in a serious condition.

FARM LABOURER FOUND DEAD (United Press Association) HASTINGS, April 12. After he had been missing since the previous morning, Stanley Randolph Mackay, married, aged 38, a general farm hand, was found this morning dead, hanging from a tree on the property of Mr J. M. Cameron, Te Mahanga Macky lived with his wife and young family at Te Mahanga, where he had been employed at casual farm work for some time.

After visiting Hastings yesterday, Mrs Mackay returned to find her husband missing. Neighbours fruitlessly searched the surrounding country until midnight before abandoning their efforts. When the search was resumed in the morning the body was discovered hanging from a tree by a rope.