ONE BADLY HURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 78, 3 April 1939, Page 12

ONE BADLY HURT.

THREE COLLISIONS.

AUCKLAND ACCIDENTS.

HANGITIKI RAIL TRAGEDY,

Three collisions involving motor vehicles . occurred in the Auckland district during the week-end. One victim, a woman passenger in a car travelling on the main road •at Henderson, is in the Auckland Hospital seriously hurt.

Though several other people were admitted to hospital as a result of these collisions, none is in a serious condition.

A railway employee made the tragic discovery at Hangitiki yesterday morning of the body of a Maori, who is thought to have been run over by the Wellington-Auckland exprese..

TRAGIC DISCOVERY.

BODY ON RAILWAY LINE. MAORI'S DEATH IN KING COUNTRY The discovery was made about 9.30 yesterday morning on the railway line at Hangitiki of the body of Mr. Haungi Kahui, a Maori aged about 40. It is presumed that he was run over by the 3.15 train from Wellington to Auckland. The body wae found by a railway employee, Mr. H. Norman. Sergeant Campagnole and Constable Fraser, who were called, found that the victim hed suffered Jierrible injuries. -At an/inquest held at the Hangitiki station, and later' adjourned, Mr. H. Thomas and a Maori gave evidence of identification and the finding of the body. Mr. Kahui is a widower, and is survived by five children.

COLLISION WITH TRAM.

AUCKLAND YOUTH INJURED

When. the car he wae driving wae involved in a head-on collision with a city-bound tram at the corner of Remuera Road and Lucerne Road about 8.30 last night Kenneth Bagnall Lawry, aged 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Lawry, of 465, Remuera Road, suffered severe head injuries. He was taken to

a private hospital in a . St. John ambulance. His condition to-day is satisfactory.

Two other youths in the car escaped I with shock and minor cuts and bruises. They were David Champtaloup, son of Mr. and Mre. R. E. Champtaloup, and Rex Cotterill. Lawry was thrown forward, striking his head on the steering wheel and windscreen. The mishap occurred outside the home of Dr. J. H. H. Wood, who attended to the injured. The car was almost wrecked and had to be towed away while the tram was also considerably damaged and was delayed for about half an hour. Several other trams were held up while the wreckage was being cleared away.

FOUR MEN INJURED.

PINNED UNDER TRUCK.

Pinned under a truck which had left the road, rolled down a 40ft bank and come to rest with its wheels in the air, four Hikurangi men were injured on Tamatarua Hill, near Whangarei, yesterday morning. They were: Mr. Roy William Taylor, owner and driver, bruiees and lacerations; Mr. N. Covich, bruises and lacerations; Mr. C. Lewie, crushed thigh, bruises and lacerations; Mr. G. Pitman, head injuries, bruises and lacerations. Messrs. Lewis and Pitman were taken to the Whangarei Hospital by a St.. John ambulance. Mr. Taylor was-driving the truck, Mr. Covich was also in the cab and the other men were in the back.

FAIX FROM BICYCUE.

Serious injuries were suffered by an 11-year-old boy, Mark Stevens, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Stevens, of Mangatnperc, when he fell from his bicycle yesterday morning. It is thought that the front forke of the cycle broke.

. The boy was. picked up in an unconscious condition by Mir. L. Bell, of Mangatapere, and later taken to the Whangarei Hospital. He was found to be suffering from a scalp wound, lacerations to the body and concussion. Hie condition is eerious.

HEAD-ON SMASH.

CAR AND TRUCK COLLIDE.

Four persons were injured, thoujrh none seriously, when a sedan car and a truck collided head-on on the Great South Road, about a mile and a half south of Papakura, on Saturday evening. Both vehicles were extensively damaged.

Those injured were: —Mr. James Alexander Grayson, of Gilgit Road, Epsom, head injuries; Mrs. K. L. Grayson, his wife, slight cuts from glass; Mre. J. Cox. of Point England, minor injuries; and Mr. Tom Wing, a Chinese, driver of the truck, shock, bruises and cuts.

Mr. and Mre. Grayson and Mr. Wing \vei>e brought to Auckland in a St. John ambulance, the former being admitted to a private hospital. Mr. Wing was able to go home after treatment at the casualty department.

WOMAN SERIOUSLY HURT.

ACCIDENT AT HENDERSON.

When the car in which she was a passenger came into collision with another car on the main road at Henderson on Saturday afternoon, Miss Florence MeGowan, "aged 35, of 448, Parnell Road, suffered concussion and. serious head injuries. The car, which was driven by Mr. Athol Mills, aged 47, of 450, Parnell Road, struck the back of another driven by Mr. Henry Manual, of St. Helier's. The impact was not severe and neither car was extensively damaged, but Miss McGowan was thrown forward, striking her head.

Dr. Rhoda Kobb, of Henderson, was called, and after receiving medical attention the injured woman was taken to the Auckland Hospital in a St. John ambulance. Her condition to-day was serious.

KNOCKED FROM CYCLE.

Knocked froin his bicycle in a collision with a car at the corner of Oxton and Sandringham Roads, Mount Albert, on Saturday evening, Russell Thompson, aged 11, of 16, Oxton Road, suffered abrasions to the back and a ecalp wound. He was taken to the casualty department of the Auckland Hospital in a St. John ambulance.

ARM CAUGHT IN BELT.

When his arm was caught in the belt of a milking machine yesterday afternoon, King I>avis, aged 11 years, suffered a compound fracture of the upper left arm. He was in a shed with hie father, a eharemilker on a Ruakaka farm. Only the prompt stopping of the machine in response to the boy's cries saved him from more eerious injury. He was admitted to the Whangarei Hospital.

FOOTBAIX MISHAP.

A fractured dislocation of the elbow, a very painful injury, was suffered by Morris Pollard, aged IC, son of Mr. F.

Pollard, police constable stationed at Henderson, as the result of a fall while lie was engaged in football practice at the Auckland Grammar School on Saturday afternoon. He wae admitted to the Auckland Hospital.