CORONER’S COMMENT.
.M.ASTKRTON. Jan. 30. While riding with liis mother and two sisters, on a motor lorry Imm Feallierslon to Carterton on Saturday. Evelyn Afiitenga, aged o years and 9 months, fell from the I rout seat beside the driver, on to the road, and fractured liis pelvis and libs. The child was admitted to the Alastertnn hospital, where an operation was performed, hut the child died this morning. At the inquest to-day, a verdict was returned that the child died Iron) injuries received through falling from a motor lorry, iho coroner adding that while the driver Dvlio was a relative of deceased') apparently exercised ordinary precautions, it was rather precarious placing small children on the front seat of a lorry, which had no doors.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1928, Page 1
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125CORONER’S COMMENT. Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1928, Page 1
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