ACCIDENT TOLL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 101, 2 May 1938, Page 10

ACCIDENT TOLL.

LIGHT THIS WEEK-END

FEW SERIOUS MISHAPS.

BOY KILLED IN STALKING. Few serious accidents are reported this week-end, but from Gore comes news of the death of a boy who was shot while on a deer-stalking expedition. Several people in the Auckland district were injured in road mishaps, and a number of footballers received attention at the hospital.

FATALLY SHOT

STALKING EXPEDITION. Tragic end to a deer-talking expedition at Greenvale, near Gore, this week-end was the death yesterday of James Ralph Clark, 15-year-old son of a widow living in Bay Road, Waitai. After tliey reacned the stalking ground, the three boys in the party separated, and not long after John Allen, one of them, saw a clump of manuka being disturbed; Evidently thinking a deer was catie'ng the movement, he aimed his .303 rifle and fired into the bush.

They eoon found that Clark was in the biush and that Allen had unknowingly shot his companion. Clark, shot through the groin, was still alive.

Allen and the other member of the party hurriedly made a stretcher and started on a return across difficult country through denee bush to e homestead. Clark died before they reached it. The body was taken to Gore, and an inquest was held this morning. , CARS IN COLLISION. As the result of a collision at the corner of Great North Road and Portage Road, Avondale, on Saturday morning, two motor cars were fairly extensively damaged. One of the vehicles was travelling along the main road in a westerly direction and had just passed over the Whau Bridge, and the other, driven by Mr. R. A. Jeffrey, New Lynn, was turning out of Portage Road in the direction of Auckland, when the accident occurred. The former car, driven by Miss E. Morris, Titirangi, ran off the road into a hedge after the impact. Miss Morris suffered minor injuries to her left leg. but ehe was able to go home. Mr. Jeffrey and the two passengers in his car escaped with bruises. TWO GIRLS INJURED. As the result of a punctured tyre a light motor truck which was being driven across the Mangere Bridge toward Onehunga on Saturday, struck a pole on the left side of the bridge. Two girls, the Misses Overend, of Woodwood Avenue, Mangere, passengers in the truck, were cut by glass from the broken windscreen. They were treated by Dr. W. H. Thomas, of Onehunga, and were able to go home.

DEATH AT RACES. The woman who collapsed at the trotting meeting at Epsom on Saturday afternoon and died before she reached the Auckland Hospital in a St. John ambulance, has been identified as Mrs. Annie Maguire, aged 04, of 19, Browning Street, Grey Lynn. No inquest will be held, as Mrs. Maguire had, for some time, been receiving medical attention for heart trouble.

CYCUSTS INJURED

A cyclist. Mr. Ronald Skilton. aged 27, was seriously injured in a collision with a car driven by Mr. John Malcolm Kay, on Saturday evening in Stout Street, states a Press Association message from Gisborne.

t When the bicycle Tie was riding was involved in a collision with a car on Mangere Bridge on Saturday evening, a youth, Valentine Edmund Delaney, aged 16, employed as a painter, and rpsiding with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Delaney, Hastie Avenue, Mangere, suffered head injuries and was admitted to the Auckland Hospital. His condition to-day was fair.

CAMBRIDGE FOOTBALL MISHAP.

While playing in a football match at Cambridge on Saturday, Leonard Broderson, aged 18, received a fractured shoulder. He was taken to the Waikato Hospital

FOOTBALLER'S LEG BROKEN. A fracture of the right leg was suffered by an Association football player, Mr. Charles Henry Tidman, ag;ed 2H, married, of Jutland Road, Takapuna, while playing for North Shore againet Grey Lynn on Saturday. He was taken in a St. John ambulance to the Auckland Hospital. He was progressing favourably to-day.

FALLS IN HOMES.

As the result of falling down stairs in their homes during the week-end, two women suffered injuries, Mrs. Mary Agnes Rnieal, of 3, Grange Road, Mount Kden, breaking her right leg, and Mrs. Catharine Woolf, aged 73, a widow, of 2."), Edwin Street, Newton, fracturing her right arm. They were taken in St. John ambulances to the Auckland Hospital. Both conditions were fair to-day.