BOY MESSENGER KILLED

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1930, Page 11

BOY MESSENGER KILLED

FATE OF BROTHER RECALLED.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Wellington, Last Night.

As a result of a. collision between a motor-lorry and a bicycle at the intersection of Hanson and Hall Street, Wellington South, about five o’clock tonight George Allan TumbuM, aged 17 years, a telegraph messenger, was so badly injured that he died while being taken to the public hospital. The boy was proceeding downhill along Hall Street when he collided with a lorry belonging to T A. Wells, Ltd., Vivian Street, and driven by Albert Edward Collins. The boy was severely injured the head and received abrasions to the arms and legs. He was a son of John James Turnbull. Farnham Street, Mornington. Eight years ago- Mr. Turnbull lost another son in tragic circumstances. In company with a man named Thomas, Philip Henry Turnbull, aged 23 years, was engaged in excavating a building section in Balfour Road, Mornington, when the bank began to move and he was killed by a fall of earth. Thomas’ two children were caught by the falling earth but were practically uninjured. George Turnbull, who was killed yesterday, narrowly escaped from being killed about six years ago when he was knocked down by a motor-car in Newtown, receiving severe internal injuries. For about two years he was m hospital and had not long recovered.