MOTOR FATALITY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2494, 17 October 1922, Page 3

MOTOR FATALITY.

PALMERSTON RESIDENT KILL-

A distressing motor fatality occurred on the main road beyond Eketalmna on Sunday. A party consisting of Messrs Currie Duncan Ayson, of Palmerston North, George D. Ayson, of Wellington, a cousin of the former, and Mr W. Orr, Customs House agent, residing at Seatoun, Wellington, left Palmerston North en route for ’Wellington via the Wairarnpa on Sunday morning, and when some four miles beyond Eketalmna, on the Bowen road, the car got into a water-table. Mr Orr, who was driving, accelerated the car to get it out of the water-table. The road is a narrow one and on the ear leaving the water-table, Mr Orr was unable to. straighten it up, with the result that the vehicle with its occupants plunged over a bank forty feet high. Several people who arrived on the spot brought the injured men to the road and they were afr once taken to the Masterton hospital. At Kopunranga, near Masterton, Mr C. D. Ayson expired in the doctor’s ear. He had been very severely injured. A message from Masterton late last night, stated that Mr George D. Ayson, though his injuries are serious, his condition showed slight improvement and his medical attendant considers he has a good fighting chance of recovery. Mr Ayson had been conscious since mid-day, and had conversed with some of his relatives. The injured man is a son of Mr L. F. Ayson, Inspector of Fisheries, is married and has a nine-year-old son. Mr Orr sustained severe cuts and bruises, hut escaped serious injury. The late Mr C. D. Ayson, who was 32 years of age, was the son of Mr D. F. Ayson, of Ferguson Street, Palmerston North, and the late Mrs Ayson. He leaves a widow and three young children, the eldest of whom is seven years of age. The late Mr Ayson is a nephew of the ltev. Frank McDonald, of Foxton, who received an urgent-,mes-sage to attend the relatives on Sunday and who will conduct the funeral service at Palmerston to-day. We are informed that Mr D. Ayson is suffering from a fracture of the base rtf the skull. His condition is serious, with just a fighting chance. The injured man is a brother of Mr Hugh Ayson. the administrator of the Cook Islands, who was able to visit his brother yesterday at Masterton, prior to his departure for the Cook Island to-day.