CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17985, 31 January 1924, Page 11

CASUALTIES.

(PBESS ASSOCIATIOS TZIiEOB4II3.) AUCKLAND, January 30. Muriel Lovel, seventeen years of age was drowned in the Waikato river at Huntly. Her body was soon recovered. Attempts to restore life failed. DUNEDIN. January 30. . The body, of Leslie Gibson Marwick, who was drowned in the Molyneux river at Baklutha on Saturday, was recovered this morning at Kaka Point. A drowning fatality occurred at Woolston yesterday in which a boy aged 13 years lost his lifer The eonstable stationed at Woolston, however, flatly refused to give any information to the newspapers. Mr W. K. McAlprae, manager of the Craigiegbum station informed the Christclnireh police yesterday that a young man, William Powell Hayward, a member of a picnic party which had been touring the West Coast for three weeks and which stopped at Cass on Tuesday night on its wav back to Christchurch, died suddenly during the night. The body was brought to Christchurch where it arrived late-Inst night and' wiis identified as that of Hayward. who resided at 25 Somme street, St. Albans The deceased had been a carrier in the city for some time. An inquest will tie held. A little boy, George Miller co-ed 5 years, residing with his parente at Howe street, ]\ew Brighton, was knocked down.by « motor-cvele in Sea \iew road yesterday and received injuries to his head. He was t o tt,™„a ? the Christchurch HosprSf, hi°s progress is reported to t»e satisfir tory. ou.-isi.jc-