ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23756, 30 September 1942, Page 4

ACCIDENTS

■'■ MOTHER AND CHILD BURNED CP.A.) DARGAVILLE, Sept. 29. k A mother and her eighteen-month-i.) old daughter suffered burns to-day in : a fire in' a State-owned house. The , % tenant, Mrs H. Potts, whose husband ‘•tj is in the armed forces, was working “ | outside when she saw that the washhouse, attached to the residence, was i’ !on fire. Her daughter was inside, ill The mother, at great personal risk, % dashed into the washhouse and rescued the child, who was the more severely |H burned. < ji| KILLED IN COLLISION |(P A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 29. jiij A soldier was killed instantaneously (In Waterloo quay, Wellington, this afternoon. Ho was Gunner Leslie Wilkins, aged 22, stationed at a camp near Wellington. His home was at Milton, Otago. Gunner Wilkins was riding a motor-cycle which collided with If a heavy Army truck. He suffered a j | compound fracture of the skull. |j MAN STRUCK BY RIM OF | GRADER WHEEL H* Severe bruises were suffered by Mr P J. A. Reid, manager of Newman Bros,, hj Ltd., Kaikoura. yesterday morning when the rim of one of the large back U wheels of a grader broke away, and a spinning across the entrance of the J garage, struck him. The grader, which | belonged to the Kaikoura County I Council, had pulled in for the inflation |j of tyres, and was being driven out j.v when there was a loud explosion, the ii rim having broken away from the ji wheel following a blow-out. The force I of the blow-out knocked Mr Reid off | his feet.