ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21746, 31 March 1936, Page 12

ACCIDENTS

MR C. J. B. NORWOOD INJURED CAR DIVES OVER BRIDGE ON 3 HANMER ROAD Mr C. J. B. Norwood, a well-known citizen and business man of Wellington, and his niece, Miss Edna Warry, received painful, though not serious,.injuries. when their car dived six feet over a small bridge on the Hanmer road, about 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, They were taken in a service car to Lewisham Hospital, and last evening it was reported that their condition was satisfactory and that they were spending a comfortable night. When their car, travelling at normal speed, was crossing the bridge over Dry creek, four miles on 'the Hurunui side of Culverden, it ran off the road, bursting through a post and rail fence and falling into the dry bed of the creek. The approach of the bridge was torn away, and the car was extensively damaged. The side windows and windscreen were broken, the front axle was bent, and the chassis was twisted slightly. Mr Norwood’s injuries were principally to a shoulder and Miss Warry received facial injuries. They were brought to Christchurch in a service car owned by Mr W. V. Mockett,

SPEED-BOAT SUNK AND DINGHY SWAMPED

RESCUE IN WELLINGTON HARBOUR I.PBXS3 ASSOCIATION ZXUC&BAIt.) WELLINGTON, March 30. Mr W. McHardy Forman had a narrow escape from drowning this morning, when a dinghy in which he and a friend were rowing was swamped some distance from the shore in Lowry Bay. Mr Forman saw that his speedboat was sinking with the weight of water which it had shipped during yesterday’s wind. At 8.30 he rowed out in a dinghy with a friend to bail out the boat; but he had hardly started bailing when a big sea broke over both the speedboat and the dinghy, sinking the speedboat and swamping the dinghy. Mr Forman had on sea-boots and could not swim, so he clung with his companion to the upturned dinghy until they were rescued half an hour later by Mr Cheviot W. D. Bell.

STRUCK BY IRON BAR While working a winch on a bridge yesterday afternoon, Robert Thyne, of Sheffield, was struck by an iron bar and received a compound fracture of the right arm. He was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital shortly after 4 o’clock. Last evening his condition was reported to be quite satisfactory. BODY FOUND IN RIVER u’liasa association telnoium.; GISBORNE. March 30. As an 18-year-old youth named George Moore, employed as a cowboy on Mr E. Lee’s station at Hikiwai, near Tokomaru Bay, had not returned home yesterday, a search party went out to-day and found his body in the Hikiwai river.

The cowyards are situated over the river. It is assumed that the young man fell off his horse, and that in chasing the horse, which went across the river, he got out of his depth. PINNED UNDER SHANTY PENSIONER'S DEATH FROM EXPOSURE vP'ASaa ASSOCIATION TSLSOSiU.' THAMES, March 30. Jack Hollows, an elderly pensioner, who was admitted to the Thames Hospital following the collapse of a shanty during the recent cyclone, suffering head and Internal injuries, died last night. Death was due to pneumonia, the result of exposure. He was pinned under the wreckage for several hours. It is stated that the shack was literally picked up by the gale and blown a distance 01 about a chain, when it collapsed on top of the occupant. It is thought that he was about 70 years of age. He had lived in the district for many