ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22197, 14 September 1937, Page 10

ACCIDENTS

INJURIES PROVE FATAL MAN'S DEATH IN HOSPITAL James McCarthy, of 366 Yaldhurst road, died in the Christchurch Hospital last night from head injuries suffered when a baby car in which he was being driven overturned on the Main West road -near Yaldhurst at 11 o'clock on Sunday morning. The car, which was being driven by George Arthur Kirner, of Kingsley street, Christchurch, was going west along the road, when apparently a tyre burst, and it capsized into the loose shingle at the side of the bitumen surface and then rolled right over on to its wheels. The other occupants of the car were Clive Hughes, of Moorhouse avenue, and James Cossar, of 308 Yaldhurst road, who was treated as an outpatient at the hospital. LINESMAN* injured DISMANTLED RIFLE DISCHARGES (rHESS ASSOCIATION TELKOBAM.) WHANGAREI, September 13. A serious shooting accident occurred on Sunday. Roy Percival Carson, a single man, a linesman employed by the Post and Telegraph Department at Kaitaia, was taken to hospital with a bullet in the head. Carson was riding in a motor-car driven by Cecil Maxwell, a telegraphist at Kaitaia, and alighted to take from the car a rifle which had been dismantled, the stock being wrapped in an overcoat. The barrel slipped on to the road. Apparently there was a cartridge in the breech, which contact with the road caused to discharge. The bullet passed through Carson's arm and entered his face just under the nose, and lodged in his head. Hopes are held for his recovery. DROWNED IN FLOODED RIVER (PSESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) GISBORNE, September 13. Caught in the flooded Waipu river yesterday afternoon, Thomas Lima, a married man. aged 23. was swept from a horse and drowned. Lima had crossed the river in the morning and was attempting to return later when the river had risen two feet. His sister saw him in difficulties. His horse later floundered from the river without the rider. A search resulted in the body being found near the mouth of the river an hour later.