WEEK-END ACCIDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 205, 30 August 1926, Page 6

WEEK-END ACCIDENTS.

MAN'S SKULL FRACTURED FARMER SERIOUSLY HURT. COLLISIONS AT OXEHUXGA. A Swansun farmer, Mr. Thomas Kay, aged 00 years, yesterday sustained internal injuries through falling while working on his farm. It is not yet known how he came to fall. The injured man was admitted to the Auckland Hospital in tho afternoon and an operation was performed. His condition is reported to be serious and shows no sign of improvement.

At 7 o"clock on Saturday evening, a motor car, driven by Mr. R. G. Allan, of 184. Ponsonby Road, collided with a vegetable part, driven by Wong Lee. of Manprere. while? they were crossing Manure Bridcre. Xo one was hurt, but the force of the impact caused the Chinnmaii to fall out of the oar. His horsn wa« tlirown to the jrround and rut about (lie knees. The cart was da marred and the shafts broken. The radiator of the motor oar. with the mud guards and wind-screen, were also d.imaped. Mr. Robert T>nnnrd Skinner. 22 years of n>ro. of 1.°.r,. nohson Street, Auckland, while ridinsr a motor cycle received a fracture,! sVull throujrh colliding with a motor oar about 10 o'clock yesterday evening , at the corner of Queen and Princes Street. Oiic'iunca. The motor ear, which was driven by Mr. A. W. Titter, of Rosebank Road, .\voiid:il'>. »a; coming out. of Prince? Street East and cro-<inir Queen Street, and the cyclist was proceeding down Huron Street, when the collision occurred. Mr. Skinner win thrown heav'iv to the

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