LOST OVERBOARD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 9

LOST OVERBOARD.

FARMER DROWNED. PELORUS SOUND FATALITY. BODY FOUND ON BEACH. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, this day. After a four-hour struggle to shift his launch to safety in a nor’-west gale on Saturday night, John Clinton Alaling Grccnsill, a single man, of Ohingaroa. a well-known Pelorus Sound sheepfarmer, disappeared overboard in the short absence of a companion. His body was subsequently found on the beach. Air. Greensill was 67 years of age. Air. Greensill, accompanied by an employee named Aleikle, went out in a rowboat to move to a sheltered mooring a launch which was threatened by the gale. By midnight they find succeeded in their object. Air. Aleikle wont ashore for a crowbar to make a new mooring and returned to discover that Air. Greensill was missing. He located the body .nree-quarters of an hour later.

A verdict of accidental drowning was returned at the inquest.

TAUMARUNUI CRASH.

TELEPHONE POLE SNAPPED. TOLL CALLS INTERRUPTED. When a motor car crashed into a roadside pole about a mile south of Taumarunui yesterday afternoon and brought all the lines down, there was a serious delay to direct telephonic communication between Auckland and Wellington. Of the three men in the car, one was seriously hurt, and the other two slightly injured. The vehicle was extensively damaged. As a result of.the accident, Air. John Jamieson, of Taumarunui, was taken to the Taumarunui Hospital suffering from a fractured spine. Air. Thomas Neill was also admitted to the hospital suffering from minor injuries, and the third man, who was only slightly hurt, did not go to hospital. The ear snapped the pole off near the ground, and the three circuits which are normally used for communication with Wellington and Palmerston North were broken. The accident occurred about 4 p.m., and it was four hours later that direct communication was restored, officers of the Post and Telegraph Department at Taumarunui working against time to repair the lines for the large volume' of work usually handled on Sundays. The line to Wellington was clear at 8.34 p.m., and that to Palmerston North had been repaired by 8.38 p.m.

While repairs were being made by staying up the broken pole and joining the wires, calls between the two centres were diverted through Napier and New Plymouth, though they had to 'take their turn with Hawke’s Bay and Taranaki provincial business. At 8.45 the Auckland Chief Post Office was working two hours behind its normal running, but caught up on work about midnight. Telegrams between Auckland and Millington were not delayed. These are always sent through Napier, and do not depend upon the pole lines through the centre of the North Island.

CARS IN COLLISION.

NORTH AUCKLAND CRASH. WOMAN IN HOSPITAL. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DARGAVILLE, this day. Injuries necessitating her removal to hospital were received by Mrs. J. Murphy, of Ruawai, when two cars wereinvolved in a collision on the Darga-ville-Ruawai Road about G. 30 o’clock on Saturday evening. Mrs. Murphy and four of her children were passengers in a ear which was driven by Mr. Murphy and proceeding toward Ruawai. The other car was driven by Mr. R. Barton, a taxi driver, of Dargaville, and contained four passengers who were travelling in the oppotsite direction. The impact occurred on the State highway between Bradley’s Landing and Mititai. Mrs. - Murphy, who, with one child, was occupying the front scat, received facial abrasions and bruises to one leg, and was admitted to the Northern Wairoa Hospital at To Kopuru. Mr. Murphy received an injured rib, and George Pike, a passenger in the taxi, was cut- by flying glass. The two men, however, were able to return to their homes.

FINGERS AMPUTATED.

UNUSUAL ACCIDENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) . BLENHEIM, this day. When Mr. E. A. Francis, a farmer, of > Ward, was leaving his homestead on ’ Saturday to go shooting, n dog knocked i his shotgun out of his grasp. Tim i weapon exploded, the charge entering , the hand, from which four lingers wore : subsequently amputated in (he Blenheim , Hospital. FALL FROM CLIFF. A middle-aged Maori woman. Mrs. .Sarah Paratone. was admitted to the Whangarci Hospital on Saturday afternoon suffering from injuries received in a 30ft. fall to the rocks, from a cliff which she was climbing on the seashore at Whangiirurii. She suffered concussion. head injuries and abrasions, but. her condition is not regarded as serious. GIRL KICKED BY HORSE. Facial injuries were miffercd during the week Iby Joy Violet Lange, who was kicked by n horse at her home in Arkles Hay. She is the two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Montagne Lange. She was admit led to hospital, but is not in n serious condition.

DISABLED BARQUE.

TRANSFERENCE TO DUNEDIN. (Uy Telegraph. -Press Association.) DI'NEDIN, this day. The disabled ban,no Penang was broiighl Io Dunedin from Port Chalmers this morning when a start was imide Io clear away her broken topmast and topgallant. 11 is expected that repairs will take about a month to complete.