ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 38, 24 November 1937, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

FARMER CRUSHED BY LOG. OAMARU, This Day. When Mr J. R. Sanders was driving a tractor across a ditch on his farm at Omarama yesterday a log that got between the spokes of the wheel came round and crushed Mr 'Sanders, who suffered internal injuries. He was removed to the Oamaru Hospital, where he died this morning. Deceased, who was a returned soldier, was formerly a school-teacher. BOY FALLS FROM ROOF OF SCHOOL. INVERCARGILL, November 23. While gathering tennis balls this evening, Harry Jackson, aged 16, fell from the roof of the St. George School. He suffered head injuries, abrasions, and a fracture of the clavicle. His condition is reported to be serious. ELECTRICIAN BADLY INJURED. WHAKATANE, November 23. The collapse of a power pole yesterday afternoon resulted in Len Ormond, an electrician in the employ of the Whakatane Borough Councjl, suffering a fractured skull and a fractured leg. Ormond had mounted the pole and had disconnected wires to be replaced by higher power lines when the pole broke below the ground and fell on top of him. He was picked up unconscious and conveyed to the Whakatane Hospital, where his condition is reported to he still serious. MAN LOST FROM SHIP. AUCKLAND, November, 23. That the death of Charles Henry Hough, a retired stevedore, of Auckland, was caused by his being lost from the vessel Pukeko on October 9 off Gable End foreland, on the East Coast, was the verdict of the Coroner (Mr F. K. Hunt) at an inquest held to-day. A married daughter, Mrs Grace Chalmers, said that her father, aged 71, had domestic trouble arising from an unhappy second marriage late in life and separation from his wife. When she and her father left Napier on their return to Auckland her father seemed in improved health and spirits. The first night out lie retired to his cabin early. Captain F. S. Bate, two officers, and a steward gave evidence that Hougu was last seen at 4 a.m. wearing pyjamas only, when it was thought that he had returned to his cabin. At 6.15 the cabin was found unoccupied. The bed showed signs of having been slept in. The vessel went back two miles and searched extensively. The Coroner added that there was no evidence to show whether death was accidental or otherwise.