ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22108, 2 June 1937, Page 10

ACCIDENTS

PINNED UNDER LOAD OF LOGS MAORI SERIOUSLY INJURED BY ." CAPSIZE OF TRAILER (PUSS ASSOCIATION TSUOBAX.) AUCKLAND, June i. Pinned under a load of kauri \o& after a motor trailer had capsizeda*. : Glen Eden this" morning, Daniel Bakes;- , aged 17, a Maori of New Lynn, was. taken to hospital in his own truck. He was immediately operated on and . an arm was amputated. He also aaf.vfered serious head injuries and con- '*• cussion. His condition is senou£ * Baker is employed by his father, a cartage contractor. He was driving a - lorry and trailer loaded with tog* ; when he met another truck on Waikauku road. There was little roam 3 for the trucks to pass, and when ttte -& wheel of Baker's truck left the crowtt _& of the road the trailer capsized «« jg pinned him underneath. >« LEG FRACTURED E. Laws, a married man of 15 Hay t ; street, and an -employee of Stacey and -u Hawker, Ltd., bakers, suffered a fracture of a leg when he was kicked by a horse in the company's yards, » - Essex street, yesterday morning. He was admitted to the Christchurch Pub- - lie Hospital, and his condition evening was reported to be tory. FOOT INJURY TO RAILWAY EMPLOYEE Arthur Spencer, a railway employee. " living at 70 Retreat road, Avonside, ; suffered injuries to his right foot when. while working in a railway goods shed yesterday afternoon soon after 1.30. the door of a railway waggon fell on his foot. He was attended to By the St John Ambulance Association, his in-" jury necessitating several stitches. He was later taken to his home. GUESTS AT CITY HOTELS United Service Hotel: Messrs R. P. Walton (Sydney), W. S. Morrison, A. R. Johnstone, E. A. Harrison (Auckland), D. H. McLean, L. R. Blake, C. Sander, D. A. Ewen, Horace G. Miller(Wellington), Jack Lester, Roland Romai, Leon Miller (United States), F. J. Goddard (Dunedin), and H. J. Bott (Palmerston North). Clarendon Hotel: Messrs C. E. Shaw, W. J. Allpress, E. C. Boyd, R. Hunter, and J. Parkin (Wellington), A. M. Doull and R. T. Postles (Auckland), H. Hall (Timaru), A. N. Greenfield, G. E. Thompson (Dunedin). Warner's Hotel: Messrs E. Aagaard (Palmerston North), C. W. Stanbury (Wainui), J. Titchener (Dunedin), W; Coull, C. J. Pugsley (Wellington), P. E. Miller, and A. W. Perkins (Auckland). Hotel Federal: Messrs D. J. Benton and W. N. Laws (Wellington), E. Abbott (Cheviot). R. J. Appleton and Charles Guthrie (Hokitika), W. T. Ogilvie (Greymouth). Albert Coleman (Chicago). S. Stringer, and P. A. M«-. Laren (Oamaru), J. A. Charlton (Timaru), A. C. McCa-w. and F. W. McCaw (Hakataramea). New City Hotel: Messrs I. Macdonald, E. R. Morgan. G. B. Cashmore, and J. B. Watt (Wellington), H. E. Stephens (Nelson). A. C. El worthy (Timaru). H. D. James (Greymouth).