ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17805, 2 September 1929, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

KILLED BY CAR. WELL KNOWN AUCKLANDER. AUCKLAND, Monday. Fatal injuries were sustained by Mr. Albert Vyvyan Hunt, aged 65, through being knocked down by a motor-car at the top of Symonds Street on Saturday evening. Mr. Hunt was being taken in a car to a meeting of the Auckland Savage Club. The car had stopped a little below the safety-zone for Mr. Hunt to call at a shop for a parcel. He had just walked round the hack of the car to cross the road when he was struck by a passing car driven by Mrs. R. Christmas, of Ponsonby. His death occurred at one o'clock yesterday morning. Mr. Hunt was prominent in Auckland art circles, being a member of the Arts Society committee and himself an artist of ability, especially in caricature work. He was a prominent member of the Auckland Savage Club, and a member of the Masonic fraternity. TWO SERIOUS ACCIDENTS. AUCKLAND, Monday. Injuries to the head and a fracture of the wrist were sustained by Mrs. D. M. Dunnlngham, of Epsom, who was struck by a motor-car while crossing Manukau Road on Saturday evening.. While crossing Great North Road on Saturday evening Mr. Geoffery Richard Clark, aged 19, was struck by a motor car, sustaining injuries to the head. MANAWATU GORGE FATALITY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PAHIATUA, Monday. James R. Symonds, a married man with a large family, who was employed as gatekeeper at the Manawatu Gorge bridge, was knocked down by a car last week and died at Pahiatua hospital on Saturday evening, lie never regained consciousness. An inquest is being held at Woodville to-day. CHILD KILLED BY FALL. GISBORNE, Saturday. Tripping in a doorway at Aralcihi station, a Maori child, Ahipene Nicholson, two years old, struck its head on the’floor with such force that it died from the injury. _____