NARROW ESCAPE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 751, 26 August 1929, Page 11

NARROW ESCAPE

CAR AND CYCLE COLLIDE A narrow escape from injury was the experience of a motor-cyclist, Mr. Francis Powley, of 9 Parkhill Road, Morningside, on Saturday afternoon, when his cycle collided with a motorcar in Parkhill Road. Mr. Rowley was thrown from his machine on to the radiator of the car driven by Mr. Joseph Bowman. Both drivers escaped injury. The cycle was badly damaged, while the radiator of the car was buckled. A collision between a motor-cycle and side car and a motor-car occurred at the intersection of Edendale and Cambourne Roads on Saturday after- j noon. Mr. Oswald Clegg, of 36 • Reimers Avenue, Mount Albert, the driver of the cycle, received laceraations. His mother, in the side car, and Mr. N. Owens, the driver of the motor-car, escaped injury. The injured man was removed by the St. John Ambulance to the Auckland Hospital and treated in the casualty ward. AMBIGUOUS WILL OMISSION OF TWO WORDS Ambiguity in the will of 'William Hicks as to whether the testator proposed to give each of his wife’s neices one twenty-third- of his property, or to divide a twenty-third part between four nieces named, was settled by Mr. Justice Herdman in a reserved judgment in the Supreme Court today. The action was brought by the New Zealand Insurance Company, Ltd., as executor, against the beneficiaries under the will. His Honour said that he had no doubt that the testator intended giving an equal part of his estate to each of his wife’s nieces, for only in tliis way could the disposition of the twenty-three parts of the property be accomplished. He concluded that there had been an accidental omission of the words “each of” from the devise in favour of the nieces. The costs were ordered to be paid out of the estate.