PECULIAR ACCIDENT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 298, 12 September 1919, Page 6

PECULIAR ACCIDENT

HORSE PALLS INTO A MOTOR-CAE,

•A most extraordinary accident befel Mr. A. J. M. Cross, into Director of Or. ganisations at Defence Headquarters, when ho was motoring up the hill to his home at Roseneatk on Wednesday evening shortly after G p.m. Mr. Cross was at tho wheel, and there were two friends in the back soat, when suddenly in tho dusk a draught horse which had evidently been grazing on the hillside and had taken fright, tore down the hill and fell plump across the front part of the car. When his friends picked him.up Mr. Cross was seen to bo seriously injured. His nose was fractured in two places, he was, badly cut about tho hands and face, and he -received a shock to the nervous system. Tho other occupants of the car, who were fortunately uninjured, conveyed Mr. Cross to his home, where he is', progressing favourably. The car was badly smashed up by the horsepower so 'unexpectedly given, it., Mr. Cross, who was formerly a. master at tho Wellington College, participated in the Gallipoli campaign, was wounded there and subsequently invalided back to New Zealand. With the rank of captain ho was given a staff appointment on his return, and lias only recently been demobilised.