ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 28 August 1926, Page 13

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

HAND CRUSHED BY PILE DRIVER.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WHANGAHEI, this day. Mr. Ernest .Hilford, a Public Works Department's "employee, had a hand badly crushed in a pile driver at Pukehuia yesterday, and wae brought to the Whangarei Hospital for treatment. SUDDEN DEATH. . (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. William George Hoar, 57 years of age, a resident of Masterton who had been undergoing medical treatment for some time for heart trouble, was walk* ing with his wife this evening in Constable Street, Wellington, ■ when he collapsed and died. DUNEDIN BOY DROWNED. .(Bt Telegraph.—'Press Association.) . . DUNEDIN, Friday. Edwin John Bachop, aged six years, was found drowned in the harbour this afternoon. The child had been missing from his home since Thursday.

SUDDEN DEATH.

. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. William George Hoar, 57 years of age, a resident of Masterton who had been undergoing medical treatment for some time for heart trouble, was walking with his wife this evening in Constable Street, Wellington, - when he collapsed and died.

DUNEDIN BOY DROWNED.

.(By Telegraph.— Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Friday. Edwin John Bachop, aged six years, was found drowned in the harbour this afternoon. The child had been missing from his home since Thursday.