ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22595, 28 December 1938, Page 10

ACCIDENTS

COLLISION WITH CAR

MOTOR-CYCLISTS INJURED NEAR RAKAIA

Serious injuries were received by Norman Shannon, aged 20, of Rakaia, and Alan Benjamin Richards, aged 18, of Railway terrace, Rakaia, when the motor-cycle they were riding was involved in a collision with a motorcar near Rakaia yesterday. Shannon suffered a broken left leg, abrasions, and concussion, and Richards also suffered concussion. Both were admitted to the Ashburton Public Hospital, and last evening they were in a serious condition.

WOMAN SERIOUSLY INJURED

BULLET PASSES THROUGH WALL OF HOUSE

(PEEBB ASSOCIATED* TELEGSAM.) NEW PLYMOUTH, December 27. A severe injury was suffered by Mrs E. D. Tarrant, of New Plymouth, when she was struck by a .32 bullet at Awakino on Monday night. Mrs Tarrant was a visitor to the home of Mrs Fraser Smith, of Awakino, where a party of pig hunters had returned from an expedition. .. . While Mr Smith was attempting to extricate a cartridge which had jammed m the rifle, the cartridge discharged. The bullet passed through the wall of the house, and struck Mrs Tarrant in the lower abdomen. She was attended by the district nurse, and brought 60 miles to New Plymouth by private car to hospital, where an operation was performed. Her condition is reported to be satisfactory.

BOY FATALLY INJURED

bicycle struck by car

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HASTINGS, December 27,

Graham Leslie Wooding, aged nine, was killed this morning when a car hit his bicycle near Pakipaki, a few miles out of Hastings, on the Napier-Wellmg-ton main highway. The car was driven by J. S. Wright, a traveller from America. Wooding died in the Hastings Hospital three hours later. Wooding’s father was recently transferred to the Pakipaki railway station.

MOTOR-CYCLIST INJURED

William Matthew Barnett, aged 41, a farmer at TaT Tapu, suffered injuries to his rihs when a motor-cycle he was x-ictine; crollicieci -with. a. motor-car near Tai Tapu about 1 2.30 p.m. yesterday. He was taken to the Christchurch Hospital by the St. John ambulance.