SCHOOL BUS ACCIDENT
INJURIED CHILDREN SECURE DAMAGES • .'By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH,’August 18. Damages amounting to £157 13s were awarded by Mr F. F. Reid, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, to Joan Booker, William Booker and Freeman Booker, who claimed, through their father, William Richard Booker, £219 13s from Eckroyd’s Garage and Transport Co., Ltd., Hawarden. The claim was for injuries received by the children in an accident to the Hawarden school bus. The statement of claim said that the three children were passengers in a motor-bus, known as the Hawarden Consolidated School Bus, on May 10, 1937, when the bus left the road and struck a poplar tree. It was claimed that the injuries suffered by the children were caused by the negligence of the driver, Alexander Hugh Millar. Counsel for defendants said that the facts of the case and injuries suffered were admitted and that assessment of damages alone remained to be dealt with. He said that £lO2 had already been paid into court.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1938, Page 7
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165SCHOOL BUS ACCIDENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1938, Page 7
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