LORRY CAPSIZES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 89, 17 April 1939, Page 11

LORRY CAPSIZES.

MARRIED MAN KILLED.

THREE IN HOSPITAL.

(By Telegrap^.—Press Association.)

TAUMARUNUI, this day. When returning to Taumarunui at 9 o'clock last night, a lorry driven by Mr. Robert John Henry Trenbath, mechanic, capsized near National Park station and Mr. Leelie Dabb, aged 38, a draper's assistant, of Taumarunui, married with two children, suffered fatal head injuries.

Mr. Trenbath, who suffered abrasions, Mr. Philip Dalton, ticket writer, who received severe shoulder injuries, and Miss Dorothy Smith, hairdresser, whose parents live in Wellington, and who suffered ehock, were all admitted to hospital.

CAR LEAVES ROAD. ■ l When the car in they were travelling left the road on a curve at Waiohiki, ,near Taradale, at one o'clock yesterday morning and collided with a telephone pole, the driver was killed and the two passengers injured, save a Press Association message from Hastings. The victims were:—

Killed. Percy Stanley Lowe, aged 21, of Hastings. He suffered extensive injuries from which he died almost immediately. Injured. Jack Thear, aged 23, of Hasting*. Hector Smith, owner of the car, aged 28, of Elethorpe. Both- suffered head injuries and abrasions, and were admitted to the Napier Public Hospital. Thear was discharged this morning. The terrific force of the impact tore the side, from the car, which was almost completely wrecked.

THROWN PROM HORSE. A station manager, Mr. Clifford Smith, aged 28, was thrown from his horse, and killed near Whatatutu, on Saturday afternoon, says a Press Association 'telegram from Gieborne. The accident was witnessed by his wife, who was powerless to help. Air. Smith, who was the manager of Mr. G. M. Newman's property at Oil Springs Creek, was watering his horse at a waterhole with his wife. His horse drew back suddenly from the bog, throwing Mr. Smith, who had his foot caught in the stirrup, and was dragged half-a-mile downhill. - His wife unsuccessfully tried to head off the bolting animal. Struck By a Car. ' The death occurred at the Patea Hospital on Saturday- of Mrs. H. Ellis, wife of Mr. M. Ellis, of Waverley, as the result of injuries she suffered when she ■was struck by a motor car on the main road near Waverley on Wednesday, says a Press Association telegram from Wanganui.

Mrs. Ellis was the second victim of the Accident, her brother-in-law, Mr. William Ellis, dying before he was admitted to hospital. UNUSUAL MISHAP. A narrow escape from grave Injury was experienced at Waikokowai, near Huntly, on Saturday, by a miner, Mr. William Henry Bridge*, aged 46, married. While cutting a hedge at his home Mr. Bridges fell from the stepladder, on which he wae standing, and both points of the hedge clippers he was using pierced his throat. A St. John ambulance took him to the Waikato Hospital, but his condition is not serious. Abrasione to the face were suffered by a two-and-a-half year old child, Graham Leelie Whorskey, of Huntly, when he was knocked down by a bicycle at Huntly on Saturday. The child wu admitted to the Waikato Hospital, but his condition is not serious. Struck by a fast ball rising sharply from the hard ground, Miss Joan Magee, of Otaika, suffered an injury to her noee while playing hockey in the Whangarei competitions yesterday. She was admitted to the Whangarei Hospital.

stepped nrro river. .A service bos proprietor of Mr. Reginald Cecil Charles Vause. aged 29, was drowned on Saturday night when he accidentally stepped into the Wairoa River from his bus, which he had just parked on the wharf at Dargaville.

Mr. Vauee usually parked hie earwon the wharf. As he was a good swimmer it is assumed that Mr. Vause, who was a married man, hit the wharf in his fall.

The Dargaville police recovered the body later, and an inquest was opened and adjourned.

When the car in -which he was a paeeenger left the road and collided with a poet in Point Chevalier on Saturday night, Mr. Victor Svendson, of Otahuhu, suffered injuries to one leg , . He was taken to the casualty department of the Auckland Hospital in a St. John ambulance.