ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22146, 28 September 1935, Page 16

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

m CRITICAL CONDITION, R is ascertained that the man jured in a motor cycle accident on' Thursday was George Fairlie Taylor* aged about 56 (says a Nelson Press Association telegram). The whereabout* of his relatives are not blown. Taylor is in the hospital in a veir critical condition with a broken leg, head and internal injuries. [A message published yesterday; stated that Allan Nichblls, aged 18, a son of Mr and Mrs F, 6. Nmholls, o£ Brightwater, was killed when a motor cycle which he was riding collided with a push cycle near the Brightwater bridge. The cyclist was an old man, • stranger to the district.] CONSTABLE’S BODY FOUND. ] A body found in the. Waikato River* near Tanpiri, has been identified as that of . Constable C. Hi Williams, who lost his life in an endeavour to save a woman from drowning on August 13.The funeral will take place At Auckland this afternoon.—Hamilton Press Association. FATAL HEAD-ON COLLISION, A Wellington Association . message states that John Stewart, of Nonnandale, was killed on ‘the Hutt road at 8 o’clock ' this morning through collision with a motor tan. He was riding a motor cycle on the correct side of the road, it is stated, and, for some unexplained reason, turned in the taxi’* direction and collided head on, receiving head injuries, two-fractures of one leg,, and a fractured . ,arm ? A fair amount of damage was done to tne. taxi.