KILLED INSTANTLY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 25, 9 November 1936, Page 6

KILLED INSTANTLY

THREE YEAR-OLD CHILD. CAUGHT IN SEPARATOR BELT. FATALITY NEAR TE AROHA. ;Fer Press Association.) TE AROHA, This Day. At Hungahunga, 12 miles from Te Aroha, Patricia Walmsley, three-year-old daughter of Mr L. Walmsley, last evening accompanied her parents to the milking shed. She entered the separator room, where machinery was in motion. Her arm was caught in the separator belt and she was swung round, her head striking the heavy shafting. Her skull was fractured, death being instantaneous. CAR FALLS INTO STREAM. THREE PERSONS INJURED. WELLINGTON, November 7. Three persons had a miraculous escape from death yesterday when a three-seater car in which they were travelling down the Ngahauranga Gorge, about three miles from Wellington, skidded on the wet bitumen crashed through a fence and dropped 35 feet into the stream below, coming to rest on the hood. Those injured were: — Mr William Alexander Sewart, of Boundary road, Kelbum, the driver, severe lacerated wound to the scalp, facial cuts and slight concussion. Mr Leonard William Cowling, of Allen Street, Palmerston North, punctured wound in the neck, cuts and shock. ' Miss Margaret Penman, of Allen Street, Palmerston North, severe shock and minor cuts. ’ The surface of the road was greasy because of fine rain which was falling at the time. The car was badly damaged. All three persons were taken to hospital, but the latter two returned home to-day. Mr Stewart’s condition is satisfactory. ! VAN STRUCK BY TRAIN. t MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED. DUNEDIN, November 8. I A collision occurred, between the south-bound express and a light delivery van at the railway crossing at Warrington station on Saturday afternoon. The driver of the van, Edward Lewis, a single man, aged 20, of 316 King Street, was-admitted to the Dunedin Hospital suffering from a fractured skull. TheJ&reman of the first of the two locomotives drawing the express saw the van approaching the railway crossing at a slow pace, and thought it was about to stop. When it did not do so he blew a prolonged blast on the whistle and called to the driver to stop the train. The emergency brakes were immediately applied, but the train, which was travelling at about 20 miles an hour, struck the van and threw it to the side of the track, damaging it extensively. The train was brought to a standstill within its own length, and the driver of the van was lifted from the cab of the wrecked vehicle and conveyed to Dunedin in the guard’s van. Qn being admitted to hospital it was found that he was suffering from a severe fracture of the skull, and he was placed on the dangerously ill list. There was no change in Oiis condition to-day. BLIND INVALID’S FATAL FALL. AUCKLAND, November 8. Suffering a dislocation of the spine through slipping and falling at his home on Saturday morning, a blind invalid, Mr Stanley Hansom Miller, a married man, aged 56, of Mount Albert, was admitted to the Auckland Hospital, where he ‘died of his injuries. CYCLIST RUNS INTO CAR. Injuries to his head, necessitating treatment from a doctor, were received by Mr William Houston, a young man residing at Wheatstone, when the cycle he was riding ran into a car in East Street on Saturday, night. , The car, driven by Mr A. F. McCormick, was going south along East Street ,at 10.30 o’clock. The driver signalled that he was making a turn, but owing to Mr Houston no seeing the signal on ’account of the rain he struck the car as it was turning. ■ After medical treatment, Mr Houston was able to go home. h ' INJURIES TO YOUNG MAN. Mr Arthur Thompson, aged, 21, of Longbeach, was admitted to the Ashburton (Public Hospital yesterday in a serious condition. He was suffering .from head injuries believed to have been caused in a motor accident. MAN SCALDED IN BATH. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 7. The inquest touching the death of Gilbert Edward Reeves,’ a retired insurance manager, aged 71, was held before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., today. Reeves was found in his bath on the morning of October 23, and died on October 28 in St. George’s HospiJohn Harper Reeves, a nephew, said that about 8 a.m. on October 23, he found his uncle in the hath . at his home. The lower parts of his body wd’o very rod. GPlioro wus no witter in the bath, but the room was full of steam. I)r. D. McK. Dickson said when lie was called at 8 a.m. lie found Reeves

crouched in the bath. He Avas scalded on the lower parts of the body and legs. His condition remained good for two or three days, then be became Avorso. Death Avas duo to uraemia, a contributing factor being scalds. Reeves had not been in good health for some time. Tho Coroner returned a verdict in accordance Avitli the doctors evidence, adding that the scalds accidentallj suffered by Reeves in his bath were a contributory factor.