ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21993, 18 January 1937, Page 10

ACCIDENTS

lorry skids over bank FIVE MEN INJURED NEAR WHAKATANE ' , (PRESS ASSOCIATION TET.EOBAM.) r< ' , WHAKATANE. January 16. Last evening a lorry, driven by Mr R. Wardlaw, of Waimana, when passing ' another lorry lade’n with cattle on Railway 'road, Taneatua, skidded oft the road and somersaulted over a 15foot bank. Mr Henry Kelly, a passenger in the cab, received a fractured skull, and was taken to the Whakatane Hospital in a serious condition.. Mr E. McPeake, who was on a load of concrete pipes on the ’back of the lorry, had his'ribs fractured and he was considerably bruised. This morning a truck, driven by Mr Alan Mclsaacs, accompanied by Mr C. Moore and Mr Arthur Stott, collided on the Valley road with a car occupied by Messrs Marsh and ■ Tanner, employees of the' New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd. Mr Tanner's head was driven through the windscreen. His head and throat were severely cut. Mr Stott received face abrasions and Moore an Injury to a hand.

MOTOR-CARS COLLIDE AT LOBURN

- Facial and head injuries, none ,of them serious, were received by three passengers in a sedan motor-car, driven by Walter Taltuha, of Tuahiwi, when it and another car driven by, John Webster, a stock-buyer,' of Leeston; collided at an intersection'on Carr’s road, Loburn, yesterday afternoon. No one in Webster’s car was hurt. Both cars were damaged about* the front right-hand wheels, Webster’s more extensively than the other. YOUTH FOUND SHOT (PRESS ASSOCIATION”- TELEOEAM.) • THAMES, ■ January ■ 16;, . Brien Cyril Stewart Jamieson, aged 18, son* of Mx; and Mrs H. D. Jamieson, of Kerepehi, Hauraki Plains, was found dead in the orchard at his parents’ home with, a bullet wound in his body. There' was a rifle near the bodyi Jamieson had been shooting birds, and when he did not appear for lunch, a search was made. CHILD BURNED BY CARTRIDGE

DUNEDIN, January 16.' The-explosion of a live . cartridge with which she was playing resulted in Margaret Reckbey, aged six years, being admitted to the. hospital with burns• on' both legs.