CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18369, 30 April 1925, Page 14

CASUALTIES.

Mrs J. Harris, Cocks road, Papanui, was taken to the Christchurch Hospital yesterday morning, as the result of having fallen down near the safety zone in Cathedral square. It is stated that she fell to the ground while endeavouring to dodge a motor-car. Her injuries are not serious.

(FBEBS ASSOCIATION TMJBGKAHS.) WHANGABEI, April 29.

A verdict of accidental drowning was returned at a Coroner's enquiry, to-day concerning the death of Eobert William Pearce, aged two years, . whose dead body was found by his mother in a creek at Ruatangata yesterday afternoon. The child had been missing from homo for only a quarter of an hour. PALMERSTON NORTH, April 29.

At the inquest on Cliye Tweeddale,. aged 22, who died of injuries received, from being knocked down by a motorcar on Monday evening, evidence showed that the man was deaf, and failed to observe the approach of a motor-car whose lights were dimmed on approaching a railway crossing. The visibility was bad and the motorist, who was on the look-out for a train, did not see Tweeddale until he was upon him. The. Coroner commented that it was a pure accident. The motorist was driving carefully. He stressed the .need of the public exercising caution while crossing the road, especially at night. An inquest was held on John Murphy, a linesman, employed by the Power Board, who fell from a transmission pole at Fcilding on Friday last and died on the. way to the hospital. The Coroner's verdict was that Murphy died of a broken neck, caused by a fall. The Coroner commented that deceased had failed to observe a definite instruction issued by all .employers in not having worn a body-belt on the pole. The Coroner urged the Board to see that all its employees obeyed the regulations.-