ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
FATAL FALL FROM CAR. EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. • (By- Tel«grapr..—Press Assoc’atlon.) WELLINGTON, Friday. The inquest concerning the deaths of Ivy Adeline Byron and Chandos Richmond Batkin, who were killed on December 22 as the result of falling off a motor car, was continued to-day before the coroner, Mr J. S. Barton, S.M. A witness, John Glenn admitted that the deceased had drunk neat whisky when the car stopped at Lower Hutt, and also that he and Chandos Batkin' had several drinks on the afternoon of the accident. • - The coroner reserved his verdict until Monday. BOY ELECTROCUTED. (By Telegraph. -Press Association.) STRATFORD, Friday. Roy Paul, aged 16, was electrocuted on his father’s farm at York Ro-ad to-day.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18229, 17 January 1931, Page 6
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