MOTOR CAR FATALITY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 213, 14 October 1909, Page 2

MOTOR CAR FATALITY.

FAILUKE OF STEERING GEAR, VOLUNTEER OFFICER KILLED, by Telegraph.- Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. When tli 0 volunteers were returning in tl"' manoeuvres this afternoon in motoi cars provided and in many eases driven by the owners, an accident occurred near Riccartou Hotel w'hereny \\ iliani Ostell Pavitt, officer in command of the Civil Service Rides, was killed.

1 "'w "V wus mvnci l "ii'l driven D.V Hill. A. Humphreys, and there ive-e 2, .w'th him Lieut. Matthews (Civil Service) Li eu t. Guthrie (Canterbury Highlanders) and Captain Salter (Adjutant Second North Canterbury Infaiitry Battalion). Tlic car was travelling at a fair speed 1011 ml a curve between tile Parks boarding the road, when the steering gear went wrong, with the result that the car collided with a tramway pole on the side of thi' road. The ear bounded off the pole 011 to , l ' onil aml collided ,vi(h the nest'pole anil was overturned. The occupants weii! thrown out 011 to the roaihvav, Mb.', "n" g n most '"stantaueouafv with . ' ot i''i;. occupants escaped with ,1 severe shaking. Tile car wt* completely wrecked. 'Guthrie received VZ7" "T 0 ; f " his " iff'itly out about the hands, but th? ouiei oirii|i:uits wiTe uninjured. InvUi ( v ; , s in tho of h. North (ante,bury Education Board wars unmarried.