CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16290, 14 August 1918, Page 9

CASUALTIES.

A twelve-year-old girl named Vera Watkins, a pupil at tne .bast Christchurch. School, was treated m the outpatients' department at the Hospital yesterday, having broken her left arm tnrougn a fail in the playground. ) A man named James Houston, of Prebbleton, was admitted to the Hospital on Monday suffering from injuries to his head caused by a lall in a gravel pit. Last night he was still in a semiconscious oondition. About 3 p.m. yesterday an old man named John Newton, 73 years of agQj was found dead on the beach at low water-mark about one and a quarter miles south of the New Brighton pierThere was no evidence to show how the deceased—who is stated to have recently been bn inmate of the Afihburton 0 idMen's Home —came to be in the water. The body was brought to Christchurch and placed in the morgue.

(press association telegbaji.) TAUMAIiIi-NiJl, August 13. Mr Hanson, of the firm of Manson and Clark, sawmillcrs, met with an accident yesterday at the- Oio mill, which ended fatally. Deceased was adjusting the belt on a pulley when he became entangled and was pulled round. He was formerly a Napier resident. He leaves a widow and two children. WANGANUI, August 13. The fust serious accident on the local tramways occurred yesterday. A car, with ft- trailer attached, was leaving the barn. When the conductor, A. E. Robson, a single man, attempted to cross from the trailer to the car, he fell between them. A wheel went over his legs, breaking one and badly crushing, the other. DUNEDIN, August, 13. Garnett Tregonning, a sheep farmer at Lee Stream, was found dead in a gully behind his residence. He is believed to have shot himself. He was a married man with three young children. John Dennieon, 78 years of age, living alone in Albion place, was found dead this morning.