WEEK-END ACCIDENTS.
♦ ELDERLY MAN'S DEATH. (PHESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) ■WELLINGTON, January 2. There was a series of week-end accidents and sudden deaths at Wellington. W. H. Hind, aged 71 years, a cabinetmaker, dropped dead at the the Newtown Park Zoo on Sunday afternoon while watching the lions being fed. Walter King, on Sunday afternoon, had his toot caught in a bolt in a revolving shaft of a launch engine and sustained a compound fracture of two toes of the left foot. He is progressing favourably. Sheila Stewart, aged eight years, received severe injuries to her left ankle through its being caught in an iron hoop. Vincent M. Cassin, a single man aged 22. injured his left ankle through his motor-cycle colliding witli a motor-car on the Hutt road on Sunday morning.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19198, 3 January 1928, Page 10
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