ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 39, 25 November 1937, Page 4

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

FATALLY struck by falling WALL. (Per Press Association.) TIMARTJ, This Day. Struck by part of the falling wall of a sod hut which he was demolishing on his property at Washdyke, Mr John Cassidy, aged 62, received extensive injuries and was admitted to the Timaru Hospital, where he died this morning. MAN LOST OVERBOARD. WELLINGTON, This Day. A finding that Roy Gordon Forking, a farmer aged 44, of Rongotea, was drowned after being lost over-board from the steamer Wahine was returned by the Coroner (Mr Gilbertson) at an inquest to-day. The evidence was that Forlong who was on the way to Hanmer Springs with nervous trouble, left his cabin at 5 a.m., and was last seen on deck. His body was not recovered and the inquest was held, by leave of the Attor-ney-General. KILLED BY KICK FROM HORSE. CHRISTCHURCH, November 24. Mr John Harvey, single, aged 54, a well-known farmer at Olioka, died early this afternoon apparently as a result of a kick on the head from a horse received while driving a team through a gateway. When his sister, Miss Sarah Harvey, took afternoon tea out to the paddocks she found him dead with a wound in the temple. i ~~ TIMARU MOTORIST KILLED.

DUNEDIN, Nov. 25. Mr Joseph Reginald Wilson, a commercial traveller, who resided at Timaru, received fatal injuries when the car he was driving struck the end pillar of the safety zone on the Rattray Street side of the Triangle. Mr Wilson was alive when extricated from the debris of the car, but died in the ambulance when being conveyed to the hospital. The City Fire Brigade had to be summoned to extinguish a fire which broke out in the car after the accident.