TWO ACCIDENTS
BOY AND WOMAN ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL. As the result of being knocked down in Queen Street this morning by a milk van while on his way to the Freezing Works, a boy of 131 years of age, Gordon John Blake was admitted to the Masterton Hospital with an injury to his shoulder. The van was driven by Mr John Gourlay. Just after midday a woman cyclist, Mrs Merrick, of 55 Bannister Street, was knocked down by a motor vehicle at the Post Office corner. She was removed to hospital by ambulance after being attended to by Dr Cowie.
The motor-car, which was driven by J. W. Asplet, of Tinui, was proceeding along Queen Street in a northerly direction and Mrs Merrick was riding a bicycle from Lincoln Road to Church Street, across the Queen Street intersections.
Mrs Merrick received slight concussion and scalp wounds.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 March 1939, Page 6
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146TWO ACCIDENTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 March 1939, Page 6
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