ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21972, 22 December 1936, Page 12

ACCIDENTS

—«— MINER STRUCK BY FALL OF COAL [THE FBESS Special Service.! WESTPORT, December 21. After being struck on the back of the head by a fall of coal, in the Millerton mine to-day, Thomas Saunders, of Millerton. aged 40 years, was admitted to the Buller Hospital this evening. His condition is not regarded as serious. FALL FROM TABLE Miss Ellen Corell, 34 Haast street, suffered a fractured leg when she fell from a table yesterday afternoon. She was admitted to the Public Hospital. CYCLIST INJURED Mrs Alice Heywood, 101 Bowhill road, North Beach, suffered a lacerated skull when the bicycle she was riding skidded at the corner of Matheson's road and Tuam street last evening. She was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital. SAILING BOAT CAPSIZES ♦ MAN RESCUED AFTER THREE HOURS U'IIESS ASSOCIATION TELKORAM.) AUCKLAND, December 21. Forced to cling to his partly-sub-merged open sailing boat for three hours when it capsized off Crusoe Island on Sunday morning, a young married man, Stanley Richard Brown, of Auckland, was picked* up by a passing yacht. Leaving Auckland at 6 o'clock to take a quantity of gear to his week-end cottage at Blackpool Bay, Waiheke, Brown was sailing his 14ft boat before the wind. When he was off Crusoe Island the boat jibed and the backstay prevented the boom from swinging over. The boat capsized, and Brown was thrown into the water. He managed to grasp the partly-sub-merged boat, and righted it sufficiently to be able to support himself. For three hours he hung on until the crew of a passing yacht which has not been identified took him on board. He was dropped at a point on the southern end of Waiheke Island, within walking distance of his parents' home at Blackpool Bay. He lost everything he had aboard the small boat, including a new suit, and when he returned to Auckland to-day he was wearing borrowed clothes.