BOY CYCLIST KILLED.
MISHAP AT INTERSECTION. Per Press Association. WAIMA'UE, April 11. Struck by a car at the intersection of Cashel Street and Parsonage Road about 5 o’clock last night, a newspaper runner, John Raymond Shirley, aged 13, the younger son of Air and Mrs A. D. Shirley, of High Street, Waimatc, was killed almost instantaneously. The boy, who was delivering newspapers, was cycling out of Cashel Street when a car travelling in the same direction struck the bicycle in the middle of the intersection, carrying the boy 70ft and the cycle 115 ft. He was attended by Dr T. W. Wylie, but died before the hospital was reached.
An inquest was opened before the District Coroner (Mr S. d’A Grut) and adjourned. The car was driven by All’s Simmons, of Hook.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 113, 11 April 1940, Page 6
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132BOY CYCLIST KILLED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 113, 11 April 1940, Page 6
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