HIT BY A MOTOR-CAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 929, 24 March 1930, Page 1

HIT BY A MOTOR-CAR

Territorials on Road WERE HIDDEN IN DUST-CLOUD Five Injured Men in Hospital Press Association WAIPUKURAU, Today. A SERIOUS collision between a motor-car and six Territorials occurred on Racecourse Road at 12.45 o'clock yesterday morning-. The men, who were undergoing annual training at the camp on the Waupukurau racecourse, were returning from an artillery dance at the Municipal Theatre, and were walking abreast along the road.

A car passed them travelling at an Gunner lan Yiilars, ITth Hatter.', allegedly furious rate, enveloping the of 9 o Richmond Street. Petonc. into party in thick dust. The men moved . . . aside to allow the car to pass safely nal ,n > un< ‘ s; condition serious, and then again took the road. Gunner Edward Kerridge. ITth Bar Travelling immediately after was er >*. of 416 Jackson Street, retom*, another car. driven by Dr. J. H. Fahey, severe injuries to face and shock, of Takapau. whose vision was tern- 1 condition not critical, porarily blinded by the dust. He Gunner Reginald Alfred Andrews, drove into the soldiers, striking five. Bth Battery, of Alfred Street. Palm who were taken to the Public Hos- orston North, shoulder injured; con pital in an ambulance. dition not serious. The injured are:— Dance-Bombard ter Arthur N. Tos

Gunner Eric Rollings. 19th Batterv, "ell, Bell View Road. Lower Hun of 97 Apu Crescent, Lyall Bay, serious j injuries to foot; condition not seri iiyuries to his head. J ous.