Two Dunedin men were killed and a third seriously injured when their car left the Pigroot, 17 miles from Dunback, late on Saturday night. They were not found for 10 hours after the accident. The dead men were
Arthur Monteith Ellis, aged 41, company manager, of 130 Highgate, and
John Quennell Romeril, aged 45, bus driver and cleaner, of 67 Passmore crescent.
The injured man, Thomas Thomson Hinchie Orr, aged 34, building contractor, lay beside the car for 10 hours until a passing motorist found the wreckage on Sunday morning.
Orr was brought to Dunedin Hospital by the Ranfurly ambulance. He suffered severe lacerations to his head and concussion and had not regained consciousness late last night. His condition is serious.
The three men left Patearoa at 10.30 p.m. to drive back to Dunedin and it is thought that the accident occurred at 11.15 p.m. Their car failed to take a left hand bend in the road, hit a telegraph pole, ploughed through a fence, capsized, skidded round a tree and came to rest 100 yards from the road.
Mr Ellis was married with seven young children. He was the managing director of the mattress manufacturing firm of Arthur Ellis and Company and a member of the Otago Manufacturers’ Association.
A keen sportsman, Mr Ellis was a member of the provincial golf council, president of the Belleknowes Golf Club, an executive member of the Otago Sports Car Club, a member of the Dunedin Festival Road Race Committee, the Otago Deerstalkers’ Association and Kaikorai Cricket Club. -Press, 14/9/1964.
ARTHUR ELLIS AND CO., LTD.
As a mark of respect to our late Managing Director, our Hornby factory and Christchurch Warehouse will close at mid-day TODAY, SEPTEMBER 15, and REOPEN TOMORROW Morning as usual. ARTHUR ELLIS and CO., LTD. -Press, 15/9/1964.
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