MOTOR CAR FATALITY

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160735, 23 August 1920, Page 9

MOTOR CAR FATALITY

PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER KILLED. (Per United Press Association.) DUNEDIN, August 23. A motor-car accident occurred yester' clay afternoon which resulted in the death of the Rev. W. W. Brown, Presbyterian Minister of East Taieri. Mr Frown left in his oar accompanied by Mrs Waddel, the wife of an East Taieri schoolmaster, about 2 o’clock to hold a sendee at Allanton. They had reached a poiiit where two roads join when another car struck hm car. One of the back wheels of Mr Brown’s ear camo off, and the car turned over twice, striking Mr Brown, who died within three minutes of the accident. Mrs Waddell was very seriously injured. Mr Brown was a comparatively young man, a native of Invercargill. Ho took his course at the Otago University and the Presbyterian Theological College.