MOTORIST DROWNED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 146, 23 June 1930, Page 10

MOTORIST DROWNED.

ACCIDENT AT RIVER FERRY,

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Friday. A commercial traveller, Mr. E. Chetwin, a married man, was drowned this morning when his motor car went into the river. at Clydcvalc, 18 miles from'Balclutha. He was driving 011 to the ferry punt alongside a lorry when his car ran into tho water.

DROWNED IN RIVER.

INMATE FROM WOMEN'S HOME

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. Mrs. Christina Smith, aged 84, .a widow, an inmate of the Christchurch Jubilee Home, was drowned in the Heatlicote River this morning. She disappeared from the home at an early hour clad only in her night attire. Her body was found later in the morning floating in the river a few hundred yards from the home. ■ At the inquest to-day nurses on the -staff of the home stated that Mrs. Smith eccmcd normal this morning, but she bad reached a condition of senile decay, and had to be watched carefully. The magistrate said it appeared that Mrs. Smith did not know what she was doing. He returned a verdict of found drowned, stating that all care had been taken by the staff of the institution, and no blame was attachable to them.