ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21296, 16 October 1934, Page 15

ACCIDENTS

♦—" OLD MAN'S FALL INTO WATER-RACE Mr F. Highway, a 70-year-old resident of.Sheffield, had a narrow escape from drowning last evening. Mr Highway was bending over a water-race which runs through the township, trying to pick up some article on the ground, when he slipped and fell into the stream, striking his head on a culvert as he fell. He was washed under the culvert and held fast in a wire mesh underneath. Fortunately, the man's fall was seen by a bystander, who was able to help him out. The St. John Ambulance was called at 6.30 pm, and eventually arrived at the Christchurch Public Hospital with Mr Highway at 8.45 p.m. He was suffering from shock and cuts on his head and an arm. CHILD DIES FROM SCALDS (PRESS ASSOCIATIOK TELEOBAM.) ROTORUA, October 15. Following scalds received after falling into a net pool at Whakarewarewa Pa last Monday, a Maori child, Makeretl Watikina, aged three, died yesterday morning. The child was extensively scalded on the legs and back of the body. YOUTH FATALLY INJURED IPKESS ASSOCIATION TELEOBAM.) . GISBORNE, October 15. While practising jumping yesterday morning Peter Reginald Drummond, aged 17, was thrown from his horse, and suffered injuries from which he later died in hospital. He was wellknown and exceptionally popular. Drummond was schooling a horse with a view to combeting at the Agricultural and Pastoral Show, and was thrown on to his head. BODY FOUND IN RIVER (PRESS ASSOCIATI6N TELEGRAM.) WESTPORT, October 15. The body of the late A. G. Marshall, the former manager of the Charming Creek Coal Mining Company, whose death occurred on October 1 when a fake of trucks on which he was riding crashed through the bridge over the Ngakawau river was found this morning under the Ngakawau railway I bridge. An Inquest was opened before Mr E. R. Fox, as coroner, and was adjourned after evidence of identification had been given.

BOXER INJURED BY CAR (PRESS ABSOCIA.TIOJT TELEQBAM.) AUCKLAND. October 15. Archie Hughes, former New Zealand Light-weight boxing champion, was lswecked down by a motor-car when returning from a social late on Saturday night. The motorist did not stop. The cries of the injured man attracted attention and he was conveyed in an ambulance to hospital, and later returned to the Freeman's Bay Hotel, where he lives. His condition is satisfactory, but he will be unable to meet the present holder, C. Rayner, in a light-weight championship contest arranged for Blenheim on October 27.