Fijian Killed in Apia Motor
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Accident
From Our Own Correspondent.
APIA, Sept. 27.
A SERIOUS motor accident occurred on September 21 on the Lotopa Road leading to the plantation district. Mr. K.
Meyer, a prominent planter, was driving home in his car with Mr. W. Blenner hassett, manager of the Apia branch of the Bank of New Zealand. Turning a bend near the side road leading to Tuai namat plantation, the car struck with full force a horse and rider, coming from the opposite direction.
The horse was killed outright, while the rider, an elderly Fijian plantation labourer, named Sam, was shockingly mutilated, both legs and an arm being crushed and broken. The victim was taken to the Government Hospital in the car of Mr. J. Petersen, whose plantation is close to the scene of the accident, but he died shortly after.
Mr. A. M. Turnbull, plantation manager for Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co. Ltd., returned to Australia after a business visit to Rabaul by the Malaita on Sep tember 26.