INFANT KILLED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 88, 24 January 1938, Page 6

INFANT KILLED

A CREAM LORRY FATALITY.

MOTHER SEES BODY ON ROAD.

SUFFERS FRACTURED SKULL

(Per Press Association.)

NELSON, This Day

Shirley Leah Crimp, aged 20 months was killed in unusual circumstances at Tapawera. Her mother was seeing her elder sister off by a cream lorry, when, unknown to her mother, the child moved to the rear of the lorry. The vehicle pulled away and the mother saw the child lying on the road, suffering a fractured skull. Death following an hour later.

DROWNED FROM A SPEED-BOAT.

MAN’S DEATH IN LAKE ROTORUA

ROTORUA, January 23

Thrown out of an outboard speedboat while it was speeding at full throttle across Lake Rotorua shortly after 7 o’clock on Saturday evening, Mr Charles Walter Day, aged 30, a mail contractor and operator of a -parcel delivery service, was drowned about 300 yards off the shore at Kawaha Point.

The accident was seen by Mr and Mrs H. G, Gribble, Rotorua, who were camping at Kawaha Point. Mr Day was thrown out of the boat ancl sank almost immediately, the boat continuing to encircle the spot at full speed. Mr and Mrs Gribble immediately manned a row-boat and pulled out to the scene with all speedy while a Maori, Hini Manahi, who observed the unoccupied boat circling in the water from about half a mile away, also set out in an outboard boat.

Robert Rika, who was going down a hill to the lake for a swim, realising that something untoward had occurred jumped into the water and swam out to the spot, where he began diving in an effort to find the body. Rika a few minutes later saw it lying on the bed of the lake, in about nine feet of water. He dived down and brought it to the surface. The body was hoisted to Hini Manahi’s boat and taken to the shore, but the attempts at'resuscitation were unavailing.

FATAL FALL IN STREET.

AUCKLAND, January 23

A patient in the Auckland Hospital since he suffered a fractured skull on Thursday night, Captain Robert Neil Anderson, aged 59, a master mariner, of Mount Eden, died on Saturday night. Captain Anderson was walking in Wakefield' Street on Thursday ivhen he fell, striking his head on the gutter, and suffering a fracture at the base of the skull.

YACHTSMAN DROWNED.

AUCKLAND, January 23

A yachtsman lost his life near Opua this afternoon when the 22-f’oot mullet boat Doreen capsized and sank off Gillet’s Point, dragging its dinghy down after it. The victim was Mr Mervyn Dickinson, aged 24, of Opua. He was employed in an Opua store.

BOY DROWNED AT AUCKLAND.

AUCKLAND, January 23,

Drowned in three feet of water, a six-year-old boy lost his life at Blockhouse Bay at a time when there were many bathers in the water, this afternoon. The victim was Donald Ambrose, a son of Mr Gustave Ambrose, of Eden Terrace.

The boy was found floating face down about 50 yards from the shore. The tide was full at 3 o’clock, but although it was falling when the boy was in the water, there was very-little current Mr and Mrs Ambrose were on the shore at the time, and there were several bathers in the bay. The boy was seen about five minutes before he was found, but as far as i& known nobody saw him get into difficulties.