ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22082, 3 May 1937, Page 10

ACCIDENTS

MOTOR-CYCLIST DIES from injuries COLLISION WITH DBAY a motor-cyclist, Albert Henry TavHospital at 9.15 ° cl g2 <l < £j- | S£n£ f'vpnine from severe head injuries sux fered in a collision bctwecn tde moto - sciousness before he died. Tavendale, who was travelling west, struck both the horse and the dray, which were travelling easi Mr J. M. McGarry, who was leading the horse, was uninjured. . • „ The force of the impact was so severe that the axle of the dray was snapped in two. The motor-cycle was badly damaged. . Evidence of identification was given by the father. Mr W. F. Tavendale, at the inquest before the Coroner, MrE. C. Levvey, yesterday afternoon. The inquest was adjourned, sinedie. _ E. W. Tavendale, a brother of the dead man, was treated at the hospital shortly after 6 o’clock on Saturday evening for injuries to the ribs suffered when he was playing football, for the Waimairi Rugby League Club, earlier'in the day. He'-was taken ill on his way home, and had to be taken to hospital in a St. John ambulance, but was discharged after treatment. TRAMWAY OFFICIAL KILLED TWO OIfcERS INJURED WHEN CAR LEAVES ROAD (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, May 1. When a car ran off the road shortly before midnight between Paekakarlki and Paraparaumu. John Dwyer, a tramway official, of 111 Creswick terrace, Wellington, was killed. Alexander Adcock, 246 Sutherland road, a tramway motorman, suffered shock, a fractured left arm, and injury to his back. ■ . Ernest John Reilly, of Perth, Western Australia, who is living at 111 Creswick terrace, suffered shock Mid facial injuries and bruises to the body. The car was returning from the race meeting at Woodville and left the road about a mile north of McKay’s crossing. It struck a telegraph post and stopped in a ditch. The driver, Morris Raymond Adcock, of Sutherland road, had a miraculous escape from injuryThe two injured men were taken to. a doctor’s residence by a motorist and from there to the Wellington Hospital by ambulance. Their condition is not serious. YOUNG MAN’S DEATH WOUNDED WHILE DUCKSHOOTING (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON. May X Tragedy attended the opening of the duck shooting season in Wairarapa on Saturday, a youth, John Reginald Cole, aged 17. dying in the Greytown Hospital, as a result of a gunshot wound. He was shooting in a reserve a few miles from Featherston. with a party of other sportsmen, on Saturday morning. It appears that his gun was discharged when his dog jumped up at him, the shot injuring his arm and entering his armpit; He was taken to the Greytown Hospital, where the arm was amputated and he died the same afternoon. -He was a son of Mr and Mrs G. T. Cole, of Western Lake. Featherston. An inquest will be held. COOK INJURED AT SHOW EXPLOSION IN BIG OVEN (press association telegram.) WELLINGTON. May 1. With a loud report a big oven on display at the Wellington Coronation show exploded on Saturday night and injured the demonstrator, J. H. Brewer,' a cook, who was taken to hospital with concussion and a scalp wound. The explosion strained the sides, blew a gaping hole in the top of the oven, which stood higher than the man, and sent a shower of fluffy white particles of insulation material into the air. It also burst open the door in front, which it is thought, struck. Brewer on the head. . ■ , / RETIRED FARMER KILLED (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) 1 WANGANUI, May 2. When his car left the road near Marton on Saturday, John James Tylee, aged 83, a retired farmer, received head injuries from which he died soon after removal to his home. A neighbour, Mrs George Black, who was a passenger in the car, received minor cuts about the face. Medical opinion suggests that a heart seizure was the cause of the accident. FOOTBALLER INJURED » ■ J. Perry, of Mackenzie avenue, Woolston, was admitted tot hospital at 4.45 on Saturday afternoon, with injuries to a leg received .while, playing football at Enspr’s road. His condition is not serious. FRACTURED LEG G. H. Cattermole;' of 31 Strowan road, - Bryndwr, was admitted to hospital in the early hours of Saturday morning suffering from a fractured right leg. The injury was received when the motor-cycle'■he was riding skidded at the corner of Rlccarton road and Clyde road. ■* i