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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 September 1924, Page 5

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INJURIES END FATALLY. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 10. An inquest touching the death of Albert Edward Holloway, following on injuries resulting from a collision with a boy cyclist in Grey street, an eyewitness said he saw a man walking across the roadway, and a cyclist, coming along in /the ordinary way, sounded a warning, then the bicycle struck the man below the knee. He fell and the boy lost his balance and also fell. The boy, Ronald Roper, according to police evidence, stated that as he approached the street intersection a motor car was going in the opposite direction, and deceased, who urns walking across, stopped as if to allow the car' to pass. The boy continued along the middle of the road, and when almost opposite the man the latter moved forward quickly, stepping in front of the bicycle. Before the boy could stop he had run into the man and fell off the machine. He had been riding a bicycle for three years. The inquest was adjourned.