FATAL ACCIDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 73, 27 March 1920, Page 13

FATAL ACCIDENTS.

» FISHING BOAT CAPSIZED. MARRIED MAN DROWNED. (Bjr Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) TATJRASGA, Friday. - Off Maketu on Thursday afternoon > two men, Walter Robert Tipler and ■- ■ 'Frank Robar, who had been fishing in i an open boat, were turning to port when . two wave* struck (tho -boat in rapid euc- '■ cession, with tho result that it capsized. , After holding on to the boat for same '• time both men struck out for the chore, about a mile distant. Ro/bar, finding the current too strong, returned to ttie boat He could see no sign of Tipler, and called for help. His cries were heard on the shore, and he was rescued by * Maori, who put off from tine shore in a boat. Tipler leaves a wife and four children. WATERSIDE WORKER DROWNED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) i WELLINGTON, Friday. >• White engaged in coaling the liner ■ Mamari this evening a waterside ' worker, Phillip Lambert, fell from a > staging into the harbour end was drowned. I . r RAILWAY SHLTNTER KILLED. t TIMARU, Friday. ' ■ Maurice O'Connor, a railway shunter, 1 was accidentally jammed by two trucks iin the station yard to-day. His thigh 1 was severely crushed, and ho was re"i moved to the -hospital, where he died a " | few hours later. ) , •| DEATH FROM INUeURIES. 'j ELTHAM, Friday. . David Horswell Humphries, a single man, aged 36 years, died in the hospital this morning, as the result of injuries ' received from an accident while felling a, tree at Ngaere <oa Tuesday. j