ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22245, 9 November 1937, Page 12

ACCIDENTS

MAORI YOUTH DROWNED

CRAMP THOUGHT PROBABLE CAUSE (P&£9B ASSOCIATION TNUtOBLAM.) WAIROA, November 8. A Maori youth, aged 19, Charlie Tangoiro, was drowned in the Hangaroa river, at Teringa, yesterday afternoon. Tangoiro, who for about four months had been working in the Teringa district, came from Ruatoria. The fatality was witnessed by another Maori and his wife and a number of children, who were bathing in the river. Tangoiro had swum from one side of the river to the other, and for a considerable time was playing with children in shallow water. He was wearing a pair of long trousers, and was swimming back across the river when he was seen by Mr and Mrs W. Te Moananui, who were dressing after their swim, to dive. On coming to the surface again Tangoiro swam another couple of strokes and again dived, evidently for the amusement of the children. This was the last seen of him alive. Mr Te Moananui raised the alarm, and the police at Wairoa were called. Several Maoris and other settlers began dragging the river with an improvised grapnel, and the body was recovered about an hour after Tangoiro was seen to disappear. An inquest was held yesterday afternoon, the Coroner returning a verdict that Tangoiro was accidentally drowned in the Hangaroa river at Teringa. probably having been seized with cramp.

FARM HAND KILLED

MOTORIST FAILS TO STOP * (PRESS ASSOCIATION TZLEGB.AU.) HAMILTON, November 8. Knocked down and seriously injured by a motorist who failed to stop. Reginald Tavlor died on his way to hospital last night. Taylor, who was cmployed as a farm hand at Tamanere, was walking along a straight stretch of road when he was struck by a car, suffering a fractured skull and injuries to his back. The driver of the car has not been located, although it is known that he left the main road and proceeded m the du'cction of the Narrows.

BOY DIES FROM INJURIES

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIN, November 8. John Carnahan, the boy who was knocked down by a car in the Octagon on Thursday, died from his injuries in the Public Hospital this afternoon. FALL FROM HAY-CART In falling from the top of a cart carrying hay yesterday afternoon, Mr T. Jones, of Belfast road, Belfast, suffered leg injuries and was admitted (o the Christchurch Public Hospital. Hi'r condition last evening was reported to be satisfactory. The mishap occurred through the loaded cart striking a gate nost, Mr Jones being injured in attempting to jump clear when a wheel collapsed.

MAORI DIES FROM INJURIES MUSICIANS INVOLVED IN COLLISION (ni SSS ia'BOCIATIOB TUIOUJI.) - DANNEVIRKE, November 8. When returning early on Sunday morning from the Owhango settlement, on the East Coast, where they had been playing at a dance on Saturday evening, a party of Dannevirke musicians was involved in a motor collision, at a bend in a narrow winding road, with a car driven by Alexander Malcolm, a farm manager, of Pongaroa. The car containing the Dannevirke party, driven by Leslie Anderson, went over the side and toppled into a creek about 50 feet below. A passenger in the car, a well-known native, George Manihera, aged 40, a married man, suffered severe injuries, from which he died late in the afternoon in the Pongaroa Cottage Hospital.

Leslie Anderson had four ribs broken and suffered a severe cut on his left leg. His brother, Victor, suffered a severe cut on his left leg, and another member of the party, Randall Sim, received a gash over the left eye.