GRAZIER'S FATAL CAR SMASH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 12, 15 January 1936, Page 7

GRAZIER'S FATAL CAR SMASH

I OLYMPIC ATHLETE INJURED. MELBOURNE. Dec. 18. I \ ri of Deniliqiiin, Mr. Ronald . Di, kson. aged 56, was killed, and W. iM. Whyte, a former Olympic, Gam<-s athlete, was injured, when a «-ar rolled I over an embankment near Lrankston last night. I Although be owned considerable proppert v in New South Wales. Mr. Dickson spent much of his time at his home, Wirringgulla, al Frankston. Lord Baden-Powell stayed there during the centenary jamboree. Whyte was employed at an hotel in Frankston. The two men were returning in Dickson’s car from a fishing excursion at. Hastings. Apparently Di- kson lost control when the car was passing through a cutting. The car climbed the embankment and overturned. Both mmi were taken t<» Frankston, where Dickson died last night. Whyte, who suffered head injuries, is still unconscious. Whyte represented Australia at the Olympic Games in 1928 at Amsterdam and at the Empire Games in Canada *’i 1930. He beat Dr. Otto Peltzer in record time in the mile championship in 1930. He lurned professional in 1932.