TRAGIC END TO MANOEUVRES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 637, 14 October 1909, Page 7

TRAGIC END TO MANOEUVRES.

I". v ," VOLUNTEER OFFICER KILLED. '■ (Dy Telegraph-Press Association.). ." Christchurohj October 13! ; When tht volunteers were returning from the manoouvtes. this afternoon in motor-cars provided ;and,; in many cases, driven by; their, owners, an accident occurred near tho lficcarton ; HAtol,. whereby William Ostoll Pavitt; OfficerCommanding..the Civil,- Service ißifles, was killed. : The. Car was' ovmed and driven by Wm..A. Humphreys, and there wero also with him Lioutenant Matthews (Civil Service Rifles), Licutoriant ■ Guthrie(Canterbury • Highlanders), and Captain Salter (adjutant of ■ the' Second North Canterbnij Infantry Battalion). - - : . .The .car, was travelling.at a fair speed round a: cufve between v. the ' parts . bordering ': the lliccarton: Road, when the.: steering 1 g&ar went wrong,' with the result that the car collided" with::a tramway.pole on'the sido of the road Tho car bounded: off tho pole back on to tho road,' and 'collided with.the next polei and was overturned. Occupants wore thrown out on the roidway. Pavitt being killed almost instantaneously/' The other occupants escaped With a severe shaking, and . the car was com< pletely . wrecked, 1 '. 1 Guthrie.. received a severe injury to his leg, Matthews - was slighOy" cut about the ; hand, but tho other ; octupants were Uninjured.' . . - ■ Pavitt teas a clerk in the office i>{ the North Canterbury Education . Board, and was uh. married. ,: ■'' '. '• : •