ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21647, 4 December 1935, Page 15

ACCIDENTS

TRAMS DELAYED COLLISION ON STREET CROSSING Tram traffic was delayed for 15 minutes on both lines in Colombo street yesterday when a lorry and a car collided at the intersection of Lichfield and Colombo streets at 12.40 p.m. The lines of waiting trams extended some distance both north and south, and other traffic was considerably congested. FINGERS DAMAGED Miss Mavis Johnson, of 5 King's avenue, Linwood, received injuries to her fingers while she was working a pressing machine at Bunting's factory yesterday afternoon. She was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital. ! WOMAN SERIOUSLY INJURED (PRESS ASSOCIATION TEMSOEAM.) AUCKLAND, December 3. Severe injuries to the head, as well as a broken nose and a fractured wrist, were suffered by a young woman, Mrs Gertrude Elizabeth le Sueur, aged 24, when she fell more than 20 feet from the balcony at the clubhouse of the Akarana Golf Club at Mount Roskill thig. morning. Mrs le Sueur, a domes* tic employed by the club, was admitted to the Auckland Hospital. Her condition to-night is serious. The woman was working on the balcony when the accident occurred. She landed heavily on some concrete steps.

WOMAN CYCLING TOURIST INJURED

(SPHCUX TO THH PRESS.) NELSON, December 3. Miss Nita Rosslyn, the English woman, who is making a cycle tour of the world, and who is-known as "The Girl in Red," had a spill from her cycle on Whangamoa Hill this morning and was admitted to the Nelson Hospital, suffering from concussion and contusions of the face and arms. Her condition is not serious. Miss Rosslyn was cycling down the Rai side of Whangamoa, when, it is understood, her heavily-laden cycle sjkidded in loose gravel and resulted in her being thrown heavily.