A CHRISTCHURCH FATALITY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8387, 25 March 1907, Page 7

A CHRISTCHURCH FATALITY.

. ,—« By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, March 23, An inquest was held, this afternoon, touching the death of an eight- ' year>'old boy,; named Ken- " neth Gburlay, who was run over by a ,' ' motor cycle on the Nsw Brighton •' beach; ye3terday>' afternoon, v and killed. Evidence was given that the cyclißt was travelling at the rate of . Orom fifty to sixty miles an hour imfjinediately before the accident. He tried to avoid the boy, but the latter became confused and ran into the machine. After, a short retirement the jury returned the following verdict:— "That the deceased met his death from injuries received by being knocked down by a motor bicycle driven at an excessive rate of speed by one William Barnard Rhodes Moorehouse, and that the local body having the control of the New Brighton foreshore be urged to immediately take steps to absolutely prohibit persons driving motor cars and bicycles on that beach at an excessive or unreasonable rate of speed, such a practice causing danger to all persons who have the right to use flnuch foreshore as a place of public As a result of the fatality, the motor races, which were to have been held on the beach this afternoon, were postponed indefinitely.