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Progress, Volume X, Issue 4, 1 December 1914, Page 150

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We regret to hear that a serious motor accident happened to Mi'. F. E. Smith, architect of Hamilton, while motoring to Coromandel. It seems that something went wrong, and the party, with the exception of the boy, alighted. While Mr. Smith was fixing the machine it commenced to run backwards. Mr. Smith made a gallant attempt to save the boy, and succeeded, but was knocked down by the car, receiving painful flesh wounds and a severe crushing of the lower part of his limbs, but no bones were broken. The car somersaulted and dashed on to the rocks and was smashed. Mr. Smith was taken to the hospital. He was on tour on behalf of the Belgian Belief Fund, organising working committees.