ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 83, 18 January 1930, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

CAR CRASHES' THROUGH FENCE. (Per Press Association.) v WELLINGTON, January 17. A three-seater car turning from Tinakori Road into May Street early this morning burst a tyre and startled the neighbourhood by crashing through a fence after colliding slightly with the rear of another car, and damaging a house and itself. A man named Heighten, the driver of the car, escaped little the worse for the mishap. SUDDEN DEATH. AUCKLAND, January 17. Mr Thomas Edward Pearson, aged 72, Superintendent of Parks to the Auckland City Council, was seized with a stroke while travelling in n council motor-car to-day, and died shortly after removal to his home. Mr Pearson had been parks superintendent since 1908.

DEATH OF A WATERSIDER.

WELLINGTON. January 17

Mr John Harold Titlojv, a waterside worker, aged 43, yesterday afternoon fell down a hold on the overseas steamer Turakina, berthed here, and received injuries to his back from which he died in hospital early this morning. Deceased lived at Lower Hutt.

DEATH BY DROWNING.

HAMILTON, January 17

A halfcaste boy, Hangi Gannon, aged 14, residing" with his uncle at Polloclil Settlement, Auckland, was drowned in the Hamilton Lake this afternoon. The deceased jumped off a diving platform out of his depth. Several children nearby noticed him jump in, but did not. raise the alarm until the deceased had been under the water for several minutes. A man named William Lane, who was asleep in a car in the Domain iround, was attracted by the cries of the children. He hurried <o, the spot, jumped in and pulled the boy out on to the bank. Gannon could not swim.

Resuscitation methods were tried unfor over two hours.

DEATH FROM EXPOSURE.

TNVERCARGILL, January 17. ,

At the inquest into the death of Mr Patrick Francis Mulligan, an old_ man who was discovered dead in a ditch at Tuatapo.ie, the Coroner returned a verdict that the deceased met his death at Tuatapere from exposure, the result of misadventure. Witnesses gave evidence as to finding the body in a hole in a ditch. The hole was abour four or five feet deep and three feet wide. The head, a/d upper part of the body were well above the water, which was falling on the lower parts. Deceased appeared to have settled down in the hole, which would be difficult to get out of in his feeble state.

FOUND DROWNED. WAIMATE, January 17. At the inquest into the death of John Joseph Campbell, who resided at Studholme Junction, a verdict was returned that he met his death by drowning. The evidence went to show that he had been drinking heavily and tied his hands together and plunged into the creek with the object of taking his Hfo.

CAUGHT IN MACHINERY, HASTINGS, January 17. William Templin. an employee of the Oppenheimer Casing Company, was caught in the machinery and injured in the lower part of his body. He is progressing satisfactorily in the Napier Hospital.