ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22883, 2 December 1939, Page 14

ACCIDENTS

BODY OF PROSPECTOR FOUND COMPANION ALSO MISSING tTBZIS ASSOCIATION TBLSOEAU.) HOKITIKA, December 1. The body of Christopher Pope, aged 30, a prospector, who left Bruce Bay on November 5 to walk to Jacksons Bay, accompanied by a young woman, Kathleen Murphy, was found at the mouth of the Paringa river to-day, apparently. drowned. . ~ . Nothing is known of the whereabouts of .the young woman, and it is feared that she met a similar fate. The body is being removed to Bruce Bay for an inquest. CYCLIST INJURED A fractured rib was suffered by William Gunn, of U2 Harper street, when his bicycle wheel caught, in a t ral *J line in Colombo street between 12 and 1 o’clock yesterday. He was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital, his condition later being reported as satisfactory. CAR RUNS INTO RIVER Turning in the opposite direction from which it had been travelling, a flve-seater car crashed through a paling fence next to the Stanmore road bridge over the Avon about 8 o clock last evening and ended with its bonnet submerged in the river. Neither the driver nor the youth with him was injured, and the car was found to be only slightly damaged when it was extricated later by a break-down van. The car had been travelling south along Stanmore rqad, and apparently when the driver swerved to avoid another vehicle just across the bridge, slewed to the left in Avonside drive, and, by this time facing north, went through the fence and down the steep bank. The front portion of the car was submerged in the river, the back wheels and chassis remaining on the bank. ______________