ACCIDENTS & DEATHS
MAN KILLED BY A FALL.
SIXTY FEET THROUGH SKYLIGHT
DUNEDIN, This Day.. Falling 60 feet through a skylight at
the Hillside Railway Workshops, Mr Frederick Tasker, a married man, aged 41, a carpenter, died in hospital three hours after admission..
PILLION PASSENGER KILLED.
MOTOR-CYCLE IN COLLISION
AUCKLAND, October 6
The pillion passenger of a motorcycle was instantaneously killed and the rider was seriously injured in a motor collision near the Wiri bridge. The victims were: —Killed: William Guzzlewell, aged 17. Injured: Horace Freestone, aged 17, fractured left arm and leg, and internal injurious; condition fairly serious.
YOUTH KILLED IN MOTOR-CAR.
TWO OTHERS INJURED. DUNEDIN, October 6. John Wcrmald, aged 15, was killed outright in a motor accident at Peebles, near Oamaru, yesterday afternoon. His brother, Sidney Wqrmald, and another boy, Andrew Hall, each fractured his right thigh. A young man named John Ley was driving a tonring car from Papakaio toward Georgetown, when the car got cut of control, collided with a pole, and capsized.
NON EG ENAR lAN’S SAD END.
STRUCK BY FLYING MOTOR. WHEEL.
DUNEDIN, October S.
Death occurred in the hospital this morning of Mr Robert Moore, aged 94, an inmate of the Salvation Army Shelter. He was sunning himself on a section adjoining the shelter yesterday when the wheel of a passing motor-car flew off, striking him, inflicting a broken leg and abrasions to his head.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 304, 7 October 1935, Page 6
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