ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 16, 29 October 1932, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

GIRL’S ARM BROKEN. "While playing on the verandah of her home at tlie corner of Peter and AVnllsat Streets a* I o’clock to-day, Muriel Amos, aged nine years, daughter of Mr and Airs F. E. Amos, fell to tlie ground -and broke her left arm. The limb was doubled back under her body when'she fell and the bone snapped’cleanly. The little sufferer was attended to‘at the County Hospital.

DEATH FROM INJURED THROAT

(Per Press Association). MARTON, This Day. AVhile working wtili a circular saw at 1) is residence yesterday afternoon Mr Gilbert Sydney Hutchinson, a married man, aged 45, was struck on the throat by a piece of wood and succumbed while being conveyed to a private hospital. Deceased had been employed by the Gas Department for the past 21 years.

KILLED BY BLOW FROM CHAIN. HAMILTON, October 28. Fatal injuries were suffered to-day by Mr Leslie Gordon, aged 38, of Mercer, a skipper employed by the Roose Shipping Company. While loading logs on to a barge on the Waikato River half-way between Hamilton arid Cambridge to-dav, the winch chain snapped, and inflicted a crushing blow. Mr Gordon was brought to Hamilton by boat, but died on arrival. He leaves a widow and 10 children. SCHOOLBOY* KILLED. DUNEDIN, October 28. Stewart Iki», a schoolboy, aged 15, received fatal injuries this afternoon as a result of a fall from a bicycle. The boy, while riding down York Place, collided with a little girl. He died on the way to hospital. The girl was seriously injured.