ACCIDENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 11

ACCIDENTS

There were several accidents in Wellington during the weekend, and in each ease -the injured person was taken to the Hospital by the Free Ambulance. Through a motor-cycle skidding in Glenmore Street at 12.10 p.m. on Saturday a pillion rider, STorman Wishart, a clerk who lives at 27 Kaihuia Street, Northland, was. tlyown off and in falling ho struck a motor-lorry. He suffered a fractured skull and concussion. His condition today was reported to be satisfactory.

Mrs. J. Gray, of 50 Adams Terrace, had the tips of the first and second fingers of her right hand severed in a bread machine shortly before 2 p.m. on Saturdav.

_ As a result of the motor-cycle he was riding colliding with a motor-car at Little Karaka Bay, near Balena Bay, shortly before 4 o 'clock yesterday alternoon, C. A. Mooney, an apprentice engineer, of 304 Evans Bay Road, had his right leg broken. Scalds to the right arm and sidewere sustained by Jean Corbett. a child, who lives at Silverstrearn, as a. result of tipping a bucket of hot water over herself on Saturday.

C- W. Price and Co., 91 Dixon Street, will sell furniture, sewing machines, and carpets in the mart at 1.30 p.m. tomorrow. Records show conclusively that the span ot life is increasing in our hygienic age, and the number of centenarians in Britam s population must now be very large, probably some 600. "The Times" in 1933 recorded the deaths of 20 centenarians and of 4/o persons aged 90 years and over. Women live longer than men. Of the 475 persons, 315 were women. .Of the 20 centenarians only; one was a man.