ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23351, 10 June 1941, Page 8

ACCIDENTS

MILL 'WORKER KILLED CAR FALLS EIGHTY FEET I INTO RIVER cp A V BLENHEIM, June 9. Walter Henry Schultz, a mill worker, aged was Wiled on Saturday evenfne when a car rolled down 8.0 feet Info the Wakamarina river near C S^h a ul t t o z W was thrown ciear hut suffered a broken neck. He rolled down alongside the car into four feet of water and was drowned. The accident was not discovered ’ until yesterday m Schultz was a married man with nine children. . , _ . FOOTBALLER’S DEATH cpaS WANGANUI. June 9. Tames McKay, aged 20, died, in hos-pifaYto-day from the effects of a severe injury about the neck sustained in a senior B grade Rugby match on Saturday He was injured when making a hgh tackle on the goaLUne. curing to stop a , rush by hftipg his back. ' FATAL INJURIES (P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 9.Fatal injuries were suffered Joy • an elderly man. When he was _ knocked down by a motor-truck m Manukau road to-nisht. The victim was George D. Pickering, aged 62, of the Salvation Army Men’s Industrial Home, Epsom. MAN KNOCKED OVER BY TRUCK Harry Russell Smith, aged 71, of 11 St, John’s, street, Fapanui, suffered injuries to the head and a knee when he was knocked over by a. at the corner of Hereford and Colombo streets yesterday afternoon. He was admitted to the Christchurch Public Hospital, where! his condition was reported to be hot serious. /