BOY KILLED BY MOTOR

Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1926, Page 7

BOY KILLED BY MOTOR

Accidents at pahiatua. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Pahiatua, Nov. 15. George Vinton, aged 15, died in the Pahiatua' Public Hospital on Sunday morning, as the result of very severe injuries to the head, and two fractures of ith,e. left. leg. He was knocked down on 'Saturday on the Masterton Road oy a car ’ driven by John Drummond and conveying a party of Dannevirke bowlers- to Pahiatua. Vinton, a former Flock House trainee, wab employed by Richard Hadfield, a farmer near Woodville. The victim was walking along the road eating an apple when the car approached. It is reported that the car was passing a motorlorry at the time, and that deceased stepped out from behind the lorry, which was proceeding to Woodville. Vinton came to the Dominion from London early in the year, and for the past three months had been in Hadfield's employ. An inquest was opened here this morning for identification and was then adjourned to Woodville. Later on Saturday Roy VViblem and hie younger brother, Alan, sons of W. IViblem, the gas manager at Pahitua, were injured at their home. Within an hour the former fell over a wire fence and broke his nose, while Alan fell from a clothes-line post and fractured his left arm.