NEWSPAPER RUNNER KILLED
STRUCK BY MOTOR-CAR [ Per press Association ] WAIMATE, April 11. Struck by a car at the intersection I o£ Cashel Street and Parsonage Road I last night, a newspaper runner, John I Raymond Shirley, aged 13, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Shirley, High Street, Waimate, was killed almost instantaneously. The boy was delivering newspapers. He was cycling out ol Cashel Street when a car struck the bicycle, carrying the boy 70 feet and the cycle 115 feet. He was attended by Dr. T. W. Wylie, but died before hospital was reached. An inquest was opened before the district coroner, Mr. S. D. A. Grut, and was adjourned after evidence of identification. The ear was driven by Mrs. Simmons, of Hook.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 85, 12 April 1940, Page 6
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