CASUALTIES.
An eight-montbs-old child, the eon of Mrs J. Stack, London street Lyttelton, died apparently of suffocation in its cot yesterday afternoon. Tho mother visited the cot abont 2 p.m. and found that tho infant had turned over face downwards, caught its head in the corner of the cot. And had evidently been unable to extricate itself. An inquest will be held at 10.30 a.m. today.
(PRESS JLSSOCIAriOV •riXEGIVA.M.) DUKEDIN. July 5. William lUtehie, master of the Rise and Shine No. 1 dredge, met with a fatal aecidcot- on Wednesday. vTliile he was engaged in repair work, a. blouse carrying ;i heavy strain carried •'-way and struck him on tho top or the head, rendering him unconscious. -" c in the Gronincll Hospital to-day.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15948, 9 July 1917, Page 9
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