DRAG ACCIDENT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8485, 12 July 1907, Page 5

DRAG ACCIDENT.

TWO MASTERTON LADIS3 INJURED. A drag accident which might have been attended with far more serious consequences, occurred in Carterton, late yesterday afternoon. The members of the Huia Hockey Club, together with Mesdame.s Hester and Sutton and some supporters of the team, were returning from a match at Greytown in a drag, driven by Mr T. Miller. The party were driving along High Street, Carterton, and were almost, opposite St. Mark's Church when a collision occurred with a dray coming in the opposite direction and driven by two Grevtow;i residents. It is stated that the dray did not carry a light. One of f': shafts of the dray was forced along the side of the cirag, inside the sidecovering, and Mesdamas Hester and Sutton, who were sitting in the corner, received a nasty blow each in the back. None of the other occupants of the drag were injured. Neither the drag nor the horses drawing it were injured, but one of the horses in the other vehicle had its shoulder broken. The injured ladies were taken into the Anglican Vicarage and Mrs Beale's residence, where they were attended by Dr. Johnston, who pronounced the injuries received by them as not serious, though they were painful. Mesdames Sutton and Hester came on to Masterton by the train in the evening. It might be mentioned that this is the third occasion on which the Huia team has met with misfortune while travelling to play matches. On one occasion the axle of the drag caught fire, and on another the whole team narrowly escaped being precipitated into the Waingawa River.