DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 March 1925, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

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MOTOR BUS SMASH

AUCKLAND, March 29,

Early last, evening, (a sensntijiia accident- occurred near the foot of the Khyber Pass road, when a motor bus carrying passengers, on route for Onehunga, was struck b.v a tram-oar and completely overturned. Three ol the bus passengers were injured, and were taken to the City Hospital. Those injured were: A middle-aged man named Gosida. with an injury to his leg; Bertrand Greiggs, a youngman with a cut forearm; Henry Rudolph Carson, a yotlhg man, aged 27. residing in Park Avenue. Taka’tmn. with an injury to liisjcft shoulder. The doctors did not consider the injuries severe, in the cir-e of the two lining men. wlm. alter treatment were able to b-ave the hospital. The smash occurred adjacent to where the road is under repair. Evidently the motor lots swerved out o. the way of an obstructing tar barrel, and. in so doing got in front of Tram Car No 182. which was also going down hill. The tram caught the bus side on, and pitched it across the up, going tramlines, the side of the motor vehicles being badly damaged.

,\ 11 the passengers in the bus were badly shaken, hut none was severely injured.

STOLEN CAR CHASED. .MCKEANI). March 28

A motor car, owned bv Doctor Alurray, standing outside his residence in Symonds street at 8.30 last night, wins stolen. The outside police stations were advised, and hall an houi later, the car was seen in Otahiihu. Sergeant Parsons and Constable Stewart got into a car with Air Hart, a resident of Otahuiiu, and gave chase, and they overtook the stolen car in Newmarket. The constable jumped on the running hoard, but the car being of the closed-in type, he could not goT a proper hold. He managed, howovp>\ to open the dnor, and made a grab at the driver. The latter put his (not on the accelerator. The constable threw the handcuffs at the driver", and then he fell off, hut was not much hurt. i The pursuing car was delayed while picking him no. .Meantime the stolen car went ahead at a terrific pace, till it struck a telegraph post, which tore the bodv out of the car on one side nearly .'iff the chassis. Three young men (lien got out, and bolted towards the Domain. The police continued to search for them all night, hut without success.