ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27832, 3 December 1955, Page 10

ACCIDENTS

MAN KILLED BY TRACTOR VEHICLE CAPSIZES AND CRUSHES DRIVER (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 2. A man was killed when a tractor capsized and crushed him on a farm at Okaura. six miles from Matamata, at 2 p.m. today. He was John Henry Vincent Harris, aged 28 i married with two children. Mr Harris was making ensilage on the farm of Mr R. H. Eccles. He ran the tractor up on to a stack. The tractor overturned and he was pinned underneath it MAN’S DEATH FROM INJURIES (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. December 2. _ Robert Ernest Williams, aged 37 of Tawa Flat, died in the Wellington Hospital yesterday. On Monday. Mr Williams suffered concussion and lacerations to the! •calp when he was hit by a scaffolding, 1 bracket while working on the erection I of flats in Wellington. FATAL ELECTRIC SHOCK ■ (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 2. A man died after receiving an electric shock while working on power lines at Paewhenua, near Otorohanga yesterday. James Savage, married, with three children, of Liverpool street, Te Kuiti. FALL FROM CLIFF GIRL SERIOUSLY INJURED i A young girl who fell over a cliff at ! Corsair Bay, Lyttelton, shortly before * midday yesterday was admitted to the - Christchurch Public Hospital with a < fractured skull. She is Kathleen Job- c lin. aged six. of Lakeside. f The girl was attending a picnic of < children from the Leeston school at f Corsair Bay. After the accident she f was taken to Lyttelton and attended c by Dr. N. Chambers, and later was I taken to Christchurch by a St. John ( ambulance. t Her condition early this morning I was reported to be serious. s —■ c PEDESTRIAN INJURED ’ 1 Jean Steer, of 55 Bledisloe avenue, p suffered head injuries w’hen she was 5 knocked down by a truck at the corner r of Durham and St - Asaph streets at S 2.10 p.m. yesterday. She was taken to € the Christchurch Public Hospital bv a 1 St. John ambulance, and admitted. Her condition early this morning was re- I ported to be satisfactory. i C MAN FALLS FROM BICYCLE f _.A n l an .M a ? knocked unconscious t D V = V? ll . lrc,n hi£ cycle "> Hoon v Hay road last evening. He is Dennis Shead of 203 Hoon Hay road Mr Shead was taken to the Christchurch Public Hospital by a St. John 1 ambulance and admitted. He was still a unconscious late last evening. <