ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24890, 1 June 1946, Page 8

ACCIDENTS

DEATH IN HOSPITAL SHAREMILKER INJURED IN APRIL (P.A.) AUCKLAND, May 31. A sharemilker died in the Auckland Hospital as a result of injuries suffered in an accident on a farm in the Jordan valley, near Hikurangi, on April 20. He was Thomas Buchard Coulter, aged 42, a married man with eight children. Coulter was driving a horse-draws sledge when it overturned. He wai admitted to the Whangarei Hospital, but was transferred to the Auckland Hospital three days later. FATAL INJURIES DRILLER’S FALL IN QUARK! (P.A.) AUCKLAND. May 31. Fatal injuries were suffered by • machine driller when he fell down the face of a cliff while working in the City Council’s metal quarry in Mount Eden. He was Walter Morgan, aged 32. a married man, of Nelson street Morgan fell a distance of about 20 feet on to the boulder-strewn floor of the quarry and suffered a fracture of the skull. He was admitted to the Auckland Hospital in a serious Conor tion, dying an hour later. DEATH AFTER FALL * FROM CHAIR WOMAN AGED 82 (P.A.) AUCKLAND, May 31. A woman, -aged 82, who was admitted to the Auckland Hospital early on Monday morning after she had fallen from a chair at her home, died tonight as a result of her injuries. She was Mrs Eva Eliza Ay ling, of Ponsonby. Mrs Ayling suffered from a fractured right hip. She is survived Dy her husband.

CYCLIST INJURED Head injuries were suffered by MW Elma Lee, of 31 Matipo street, R ,c ‘ carton, when she was involved in an accident with a motor-car at the corner of Riccarton road and Kauri street while cycling last evening. She was admitted to the Christchurch PjJJJ* Hospital at 9.40 p.m., and her tion early this morning was reporter to be satisfactory.