DEATH OF A LEVIN LAD.

Shannon News, 20 December 1927, Page 3

DEATH OF A LEVIN LAD.

RESULT OF STREET ACCIDENT IN WELLINGTON. A sad bereavement has been sustained by 1 Mr and Mrs W. E. de Malmanehe of Levin, as the result of an accident which happened to their eldest son, William Herbert, aged 19, in Wellington on Saturday night. While travelling on a tram-car in Constable Street he lost his hat, and, in the endeavour to recover it. stepped off the tram on the wrong side. It appears that he was struck first by. a motor-cycle, which threw, him into the roadway, and then by a motor-car. He was rushed to the Public Hospital, which was reached at 10.30 p.m. ( and was treated for serious injuries to the head, but. he died at 11 o’clock on Sunday morning. The deceased had been about twelve months in Wellington, whither he had gone to secure further experience in the grocery trade, at Messrs Russell & Co.’s., having been previously employed at his father’s shop in Levin. He was popular among the young people, and last year played football for the Weraroa Club. Sympathy will be extended from all sides to Mr and Mrs de Malehanche in, their sorrowful experience. The funeral will leave the residence at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday, for the Levin cemetery.