MOTOR FATALITY
DEATH OF BOY. CHARGE AGAINST DRIVER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, August 9. When a motor-lorry and motor milkfloat collided on an intersection on May 12, a schoolboy, Donald Charles Mavor, who as a milk delivery boy was riding a cycle and holding on. to the float, was crushed between the vehicles and killed instantly. The driver of the lorry, Leo Marshall Gray, faced a charge of negligent driving, causing death, in the Supreme Court today. ' Comment was made on the practice of allowing delivery boys on cycles to be “towed” by floats; Evidence for the prosecution was not concluded when the court adjourned till tomorrow.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1938, Page 9
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108MOTOR FATALITY Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1938, Page 9
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