ACCIDENTS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1929, Page 20

ACCIDENTS

Through being knocked down by. a tramcar in Manners street on Tuesday afternoon, Waltor Jennings, aged 14, who lives in Main road, Ngaio, received a lacerated wound on the scalp. Ho was % taken to the Hospital by the City Ambulance. { ':. -

J. D. Mills, a cbal merchant living at 163, The Parade, Island Bay, was run over by a ; motor-lorry on the Railway Wharf-on Tuesday afternoon, and had his arm crushed. He was taken to the Hospital by the City Ambulance.

Through; an emery wheel breaking, H. Euudaen, an engineer, employed by W. Gable and Co., Ltd., Kaiwarra, had his left arm Injured yesterday. He was taken to the Hospital by the City Ambulaneo. ; .. '■', ; ..

When" a' motor-cycle he was/riding collided with '■■. a motor-van in' Cuba street, Petone, ■'■ yesterday, Eric Booth, who lives at 53, Ava street, Petoie, had Ills left leg-fractured. The City Ambulance removed him: to the Hospital. A greengrocerj W."Jenkinson,; of .26, Shirley street, fractured his right forearm at Karori yesterday. He ■ was cranking a motor-car, and the engine apparently back-fired. The City Ambulance took him to-the Hospital.'

The honesty of the British public is well shown in the British Museum, according to the superintendent'of the Reading Room, who has jusfc retired. He states'that.::it is a very rare occurrence to lose a book. ... . .