Timaru Fatality.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 97, 14 August 1914, Page 6

Timaru Fatality.

COLLISION BETWEEN MOTOR CAR AND MOTOR CYCLE. COLONEL HAYHURST KILLED. OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED. [Vkh Punas Association.} Timaru, August 1.4. A fatality occurred about 9.20 th;morning. olonol Hayhurst and Mr R. R. Mar tin (Tomnka Loader) wore; motoring into Timaru when on reaching Wash dyke they .tried to dodge a. boy on the road. A motor cyclist named Pat O’Connor, going out from Timaru, was also dodging, and the result was a frightful collision between the car and the motor cycle, and the car overturned. Colonel Hayhurst and Mr R. R. Mar and killed instantly, his skull and face being smashed. Martin was found under the oar severely injured in the hack and face. O’Connor was among the wreckage of the car and cycle, /being soribusly injured on the head and was uncon I scions.

A Christchurch Press Association telegram states; The Canterbury com rnittoC of Moderates telegraphed to Mr Massey their regret at the tlecision to proowl to the ©lections at the present juncture, and requesting tlie Government to provide members of the expeditionary force an opportunity to record their votes on the licensing issue, otherwise defenders of the Empire would lie disenfranchised. ft was possible, they affirmed, an alteration would he made in the condition of the country during their absence without their approval. Notification appears in another col nmn that all uniforms, equipment and rifles on issue to members of the ‘‘D’ Co., XTth Regiment Tan'mhi Rifles, must he returned to the Defence Oil ice immediately.