WOMAN FALLS OVER CLIFF

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22594, 27 December 1938, Page 10

WOMAN FALLS OVER CLIFF

ACCIDENT ON KAWAU ISLAND

LAUNCH AND AMBULANCE JOURNEY TO HOSPITAL

(PRESS association telegram.) AUCKLAND, December 26. After an unsuccessful effort had been made to enlist the aid of air transport, a long and at times difficult journey by launch and ambulance was faced by a young woman who suffered severe injuries in a fall from a cliff at Kawau Island on Saturday, The victim was Miss Velma Hyde, a domestic employed at Mansion House. During the afternoon Miss Hyde was walking with a friend along the edge of a cliff several bays beyond Mansion House bay, when she missed her footing, and fell 30 feet on to the rocks below, suffering head injuries, concussion, and a fracture of the left arm. She was taken to the Mansion House where her injuries were treated by a nurse who was spending a holiday at Kawau. .. , With hospital treatment essential, the possibility of obtaining a seaplane from the Hobsonville air base to take Miss Hyde to Auckland was investigated; but it was not found practicable to send a machine at the time, and arrangements were made for transport over the overland route through Warkworth. The injured woman was placed on board a cruising launch, and taken to a sandspit on the mainland, and she was there transferred to an ambulance which had made a rapid trip from Auckland. Miss Hyde’s condition improved over the week-end; but it was stated by the hospital authorities to-day to be still serious.

MOTOR-CYCLE STRIKES TELEPHONE POLE

RIDER SERIOUSLY INJURED

A motor-cyclist was seriously injured, and a pillion-rider suffered minor injuries, when the machine they were riding got out of control and struck a telephone pole on the southeast corner, at the intersection of Colombo street and Armagh street, about 6.15 p.m. yesterday.

The rider, Allan Finn, of Runanga, West Coast, was taken to the Christchurch Hospital in an . unconscious condition, suffering from a double fracture of the left forearm and severe head injuries. His passenger was Leo Robinson, of Runanga, who received injuries to his left leg. He was admitted to hospital. The motor-cycle was extensively damaged.

MOTOR-CYCLIST DIES OF INJURIES

THROWN FROM MACHINE WHEN TYRE PUNCTURED

(PBES3 ASSOCIATION TELEOBAM.) NEW PLYMOUTH, December 26. Fatal injuries were suffered by John Edmund Wesley, aged 31, a bridge contractor, when he was thrown from his motor-cycle on the main road near Oaonui on Sunday morning. He died in the New Plymouth Hospital that evening from severe head injuries. Nigel Matthew Ethelbert Watson, Who was riding on the pillion seat, was thrown clear, and was not injured. The accident was caused by the puncturing of the tyre on the back wheel. As a result, the motorcycle wobbled, throwing Wesley so that he hit his head on the road. After being attended by a doctor from Opunake, he was taken to hospital at New Plymouth.

FRACTURE OF SKULL Philip Gibson, aged 11, whose parents live at 294 Cashmere road, Halswell, suffered a fracture of the skull as the result of a blow on the head with a stone about 5.30 p.m. yesterday. He was taken to the Christchurch Hospital. His condition was reported to be satisfactory.

FALL FROM MOTOR-CYCLE C. Marson, of 86 North road, Papanui, was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital, at 1.10 a.m. on Christmas Day, suffering from head injuries suffered in a fall from his motor-cycle, the throttle of which had jammed.

RIGHT LEG FRACTURED H. Kendall, who lives at 2 Randolph street, was admitted to the ' Christchurch Public Hospital at 12.35 a.m. on Christmas Day, with a fractured right leg. He was walking along Ferry road, when a cyclist collided with him and knocked him down.

PEDESTRIAN DIES FROM

INJURIES

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.)

GISBORNE, December 26. Through being struck by a motorcycle at 9.30 p.m. on Saturday, Thomas Kane, aged 69, a pensioner, was admitted to hospital suffering from a fractured skull, and died 15 minutes later. The motor-cyclist, Thomas Brodie, suffered head abrasions, and the pillion rider, Handley, a broken nose. The accident occurred at a town intersection.

CAR DRIVER INJURED (press association telegram.) HASTINGS, December 26, Amputation of the right arm was necessary through injuries suffered by Theodore George White, aged 28, a widower, of Hastings, in a motor accident at the week-end. White was driving along the Hastings-Napier main highway when the vehicle came into collision with a lorry. White had his elbow out of the window of the car and, though the collision was only a glancing one, the lorry platform crushed his arm.