GIRL KILLED ON WAY TO SCHOOL

Te Puke Times, 3 February 1928, Page 3

GIRL KILLED ON WAY TO SCHOOL

LISTER SEVERELY IN JURED i Gisborne, Feb. 1 sbooking accident ocourred ifljtAwapuni Road* near the entrance to the Awapuni school, this {morning, when a motor car with passengers ran -j&tfnTtwo little girls, killing one f severely injuring the other. r - ' The victim of the fatality was . Edna Third, aged 8 years, the • eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs A,lian.Thitd, residents of Salisbury injured girl is Faith, the Second girl 'of Mr and Mrs Third, ‘ aged 5 years. . T 1. - Mx : Third is an employee of the post ind Telegraph Department. ];[ - Acoordiiig to the story of an eye-witness the children passed behind a Borough Council rubbish part,.and suddenly walked out in front of the approaching car, the driver of which sounded his horn as he : approached the other r ’ vehicle. Too late to pull up, the - oar-driver saw the children in his .track and swiftly swerved to the Ljeft.. Icaving tbe metalled surface Vs*of the road and swinging down ' s >Off the crown into the grass a foot two below its level. The.children took the same di- • "Action ih . their panic-stricken efforts to avoid the collision and the aooident fallowed swiftly. Struck by the car, the little girls were thrown headlong upon the grass, one being killed instantly, while the other suffered a severe blow on the head and painful leg injuries* , , The occupants of the car were ; all Maoris, the driver being the well-known native footballer, T. : j)enhis*-who toured Britain and France with the Maori Rugby team. *