ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21436, 30 March 1935, Page 21

ACCIDENTS

0 — MOTOR-CYCLISTS COLLIDE TWO MEN INJURED A head-on collision between two motor-cycles occurred at the corner of Milton and Selwyn streets shortly before 11 o'clock last evening, and both riders were removed to the Christchurch Public Hospital in a St. John ambulance. S. Andrews, of 12 Dunn street, Spreydon, suffered head injuries and a broken arm, and Ray Harris, aged 19 years, of Springston, suffered knee and elbow injuries. Both men were admitted to hospital. YOUNG WOMAN INJURED Miss Beryl Collins, aged 20 years, of 81 Flockton street, St. Albans, was knocked down by a motor-car on the Main North road near Chaneys corner last evening, and suffered abrasions to her head and shoulders. She was conveyed to the Christchurch Public Hospital in a St. John Ambulance, and was admitted. Her condition is satisfactory. MINER RILLED (rr,«SB ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) INVERCARGILL, March 29. "William Ballantyne, a miner, aged 30, employed at the Linton Company's mine at Ohai, was caught in a fall of coal yesterday afternoon. He suffered extensive crushing and fracture of the spine and was admitted to the Riverton Hospital. Ballantyne died this morning. He was a married man with three young children.

Before the introduction of the telegraph, stockbrokers in London used carrier pigeons to take market information between London and Paris.

A campaign has been started in New York to persuade all men and women in the city to record their finger-prints with the police, so that they may be readily identified in the event of death in unusual circumstances. This appeal is a direct result of the difficulty experienced in identifying many of those who lost their lives in the recent sea disasters of the Morro Castle and the Mohawk. After a similar appeal several years ago 6000 people in New York, nearly all of whom were well to do, had records of their finger-prints made. Of these, 60 per cent, were men. Records of finger-prints offered voluntarily are kept very confidentially under Jock and key, apart from the 1.500.000 records in the criminal files. The number of persons who die unidentified in New York is greater than generally believed. During each of ihe last four years 3700 unidentified bodies have been buried in common graves. Not long ago 121 spirituals is had their finger-prints recorded by the police for purposes of "identification" in connexion with any messages they may send to this earth after death.