ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 52, Issue 247, 1 August 1932, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

WOMAN FOUND DROWNED. IDENTITY NOT KNOWN. (Special to the “ Guardian.”) WELLINGTON, July 30. The body of a woman, between 50 and 60 years of age, was washed ashore at Karaka Bay yesterday afternoon, and was discovered by Mr C Wood, Seatoun Heights at 3.15 o’clock. Nobody has been reported missing, and the body lias not been identified. Deceased was s’ft lin in height, of medium build and short dark hair, turning grey. Both sets of teeth arc false. She was dressed in a sky bine overcoat, half-lined with fawn crepe de chine, fastened with two buttons, and With a black collar. Other garments were a w’oollen cardigan jacket with two pockets, pink underskirt and corselette and a woollen combination branded “William Wick, Vancouver/’ She was wearing black patent leather shoes, with two pairs of stockings, fawn and black. Around her neck was a light amber-coloured head necklace, and she was also wearing a brooch. A pair of glasses were in a case, which bore the name of Johnstone and Hazlett, chemist and opticians, Dunedin.” The body had not been in the water more than two days and was washed ashore on a jagged, rocky part of the coast. There are no cliffs in the vicinity and it is thought that the body must have drifted from the south. It was removed to the city morgue.

CHILD DIES FROM INJURIES. DUNEDIN, July 31. A three-vear-old bov named Robert William Davidson, whose parents live at Otokia, who was knocked down hv a motor-car on Saturday afternoon, and admitted to hospital in Dunedin suffering form severe injuries to nis head, died at a quarter to one this morning. fatal injuries received. WELLINGTON, .July 31. Knocked down by a taxi in Whitmore Street shortly before six o’clock tester day evening. Mr William Edwards, of Main Road, Eastbourne, died in hospital. He was a married man, aged 33. and had two children. MAN FOUND DEAD. GISBORNE, July 30. Mr Thomas Barber, a single middleaged man, living with his sister at Ormond, was found lying dead near the ••iverbed. A gun was beside the body.