ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 11, 24 October 1933, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

YOUNG WOMAN KILLED.

MOTOR-CYCLIST SERIOUSLY INJURED. CRASH INTO TREES AT CORNER. (Per Press Association).. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Miss Rita Corbett, of St. Albans, aged 26, was,killed, and Mr Frederick Hobbs, a member of the Woolston Fire Brigade, was seriously injured early this morning, when a motor-cycle on which they were riding collided with some trees at a corner on the Main North Road. The cyclist failed to negotiate the turn properly. The condition of Mr Hobbs is improving.

LOWE SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES. HAEMORRHAGE OF THE BRAIN. GREYMOUTH, October 23. Bert Lowe, a single man, aged 22, a professional boxer, died in the Grey Hospital this afternoon from injuries sustained, causing haemorrhage of the brain, in the twelfth round of a bout with Harry Lister on Saturday night. Lowe never regained consciousness. Mrs Lowe, his mother, arrived _ from Dunedin by aeroplane this morning. Bert Lowe is the third competitor who took part in the New Zealand boxing championship held in Ashburton at the beginning of August, 1931, to die. The others were Harold Thomas, of Wellington, who was killed by a train outside Wellington, and Keith Cowan, of Ashburton.

THE CORONER'Si VERDICT.

"CLEAN, FRIENDLY CONTEST." GREYMOUTH, This Day. "That deceased, Albert Sydney Lowe, came to his death at the Grey River Hospital on October 23 from cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral concussion and cerebral oedema, resulting from extreme physical exertion during a boxing contest on the evening of October 21. The evidence shows that the contest was very clean, fast and even, and was conducted in a friendly spirit by both contestants, and that all the rules governing boxing contests, including the preliminary medical examination, were fully complied with." This verdict was returned by the Coroner (Mr Meldrum, S.M.) at an inquest this morning on Lowe, whose death followed a fight on .Saturday with Harry Lister.

MAORI'S BODY RECOVERED. HOKITIKA, This Day. A search partv found the body of Mark Te Hoeti at Saltwater beach, South Westland, on Saturday. The deceased, a Maori, a. single man, aged 28, was drowned the previous day when crossing the beach in a cart.

FALL DOWN A CLIFF FACE. WELLINGTON, October 23. Patrick Devon, a plumber, aged 20, residing at Hataitai, while tramping with a party in the Orongoronga range to-day, dropped 50 feet down a cliff face when the scrub he was grasping broke away. His skull was fractured and he died two hours later while being brought in by his ■■ companions.