ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26793, 26 July 1952, Page 8

ACCIDENTS

ELDERLY WOMAN FOUND DEAD

HOME FILLED WITH GAS (New Zealand Preu Association) AUCKLAND, July 25. The body of an elderly woman was found in a gas-filled house in Remuera last night beside an overturned telephone. Nearby was toe body of a cat. The woman was Miss Margaret Eliza Workman, aged 74, of 220 Remuera road. Miss Workman lived alone and from the number of newspapers lying at the front gate it seems that death occurred about last Saturday, s The gas was escaping from two burners and was so dense that the police could not make a complete inspection until the doors and windows had been open for some time. All the doors and windows had been locked from the inside. MAN FOUND DEAD ON TRAWLER FALL FROM WHARF (New Zealand Press Association) „ DUNEDIN, July 25. The Dunedin police are making extensive inquiries to verify the Identity of a man who was found dead on the steam trawler Taiaroa at the Dunedin oil berth at 3 a.m. to-day. It is believed that the man’s name is Colin Macrae. He is aged about 40 years and is of medium height and build. Charles Munday, a member of the crew of the Taiaroa, told the police that he was with the man on the wharf where the Taiaroa was berthed about 230 a.m. Munday said that While he was climbing down from the wharf on to the trawler, the man fell from toe wharf head first on to the deck of the Taiaroa. Munday then went to the fireman on duty and asked him to assist. The fireman did not see the man on the deck and thinking Munday to be under the influence of liquor, told him to get off the ship. Mupday then went to the police and reported what had happened. When the police arrived about 3 a.m., the man was dead.

MOTORCYCLIST KILLED

RAN INTO BACK OF TRUCK (New Zealand Press Association i TAIHAPE, July 25. When toe motor-cycle he wu riding with a pillion passenger ran into the back of a stationary truck at Hihitaht this evening, Norman Allan Person, oi Havelock road, Hastings, an employee of the D.C. Construction Company, Waiouru, wu killed instantly. . The pillion rider, Ray Baker, employed by the same firm, is in the Tainape Hospital. His condition is very serious.

CAR AND CYCLIST COLLIDE

Walter Burgess, aged about 70, of Winslow, suffered abrasions and shock when the bicycle he was riding was involved in a collision with a car driven by Mr Duncan Latimer, of 83 Armagh street, Christchurch, on the Main South road at Tinwald last evening. He wu admitted to the Ashburton Public Hospital.