KILLED BY A MOTOR.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13432, 25 March 1907, Page 5

KILLED BY A MOTOR.

INQUEST AT CHRISTCHURCH. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 23. An inquest was held this afternoon touching the death of an eight-year-old boy named Frederick Kenneth Gourlay, who was ru,n over by a motor cycle on the .New Brighton beach yesterday afternoon and tilled. Evidence \yas given th£t the cyclist was travelling at the rate of from 50 to 60 miles an hour. Immediately before the accident he tried to avoid the boy, but the latter became confused, and ran into the machine. After a short retirement the jury retumeu the following veidict: — "That the deceased met his death from injuries received by being kr.ockod dowh by a naotoi 4 bicycle driven at an excessive rate of speed by one William Barnard Rhodes Moorhouse, and the local body ha^vijngcontrol of the New Brighton foreshore be urged to immediately take steps absolutely to 1 prohibit persons driving motor cars and bicycles, on the beach at an excessive or unreasonable .rate of speed, such a practice causing danger to all persons who have the right to use suqJi foreshore as a place of public resort." As a result of the fatality the motor races which were to have been held on the beach this" afternoon were postponed indefinitely.