CAR OVER A BANK

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 101, 23 January 1935, Page 10

CAR OVER A BANK

Driver Killed, Two Others Seriously Hurt By Telegraph.—Press Association. Thames, January 22. As a result of a ear going over a bank about midnight nine miles from Whitianga, Robert Stanley Robertson, a traveller for John Reid and Co., Auckland, aged 45, a marriedlman with four children, was killed instantly. Two passengers were injured and were taken to the Mercury Bay Hospital. They are Leslie Jolly, of Cromwell, a married man, whose condition is serious, and Alfred Wilson, licensee of the Tapu Hotel, also married. His condition, too, is serious. The car was proceeding from Coromandel to Whitianga, and it is believed that the bank gave way and that the car rolled over into the creek below, all the occupants being thrown into the water. CRASH INTO FENCE . 4. Young Woman Injured ' While descending the .grade at the city end of the Mount Victoria Tunnel yesterday Miss J. Molvor, 72 Bridge Street, Rongotai, had an accident with her cycle and failed to negotiate the corner into Brougham Street, crashing into a paling fence.* She received injuries to her shoulders, and the I f Ambulance removed her to hospital. The ambulance brought to the Wellington Hospital from Wainui yesterday Lawrie Pointon, aged 13, one of a party of scouts camping there, who had been injured in falling down a steep, rocky, hillside the previous evening. The boy, who lives at 9 Heretaunga Street, Petone, had an injury to his head, a severely contused eye and abrasions on his face and left arm. June Allingham, a girl who lives at 15 Mandalay, Terrace, Khandallah, injured her left forearm in falling off a lorry on Onslow Road on Monday. She was attended by Dr. E. L. Button and taken to hospital yesterday.