ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
FATAL FALL FROM A STACK. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Core, March 9. • A. Hill, .bootmaker, Waikaia, was assisting witli the threshing on Mr. Gco. Sylcs's farm, at Wendon Valley, Waikaia, 22 miles from Gore, yesterday, when ho slid down a straw stack, fell to the ground,' and broke his neck. DKOWNING ACCIDENT. . Cisborne, March 9. Fred Taylor and threo Natives were upset while crossing tho river at To!aga last night. Tho' Natives were rescued, but Taylor, who attempted to swim ashore, was drowned. He leaves a wife and seven children. CHILD CRUSHED TO DEATH. Whangarei, March 9. Madgo Johnson, * the three-year daughter of Mr. A. T. Johnson, of Maungatapere, was crushed to death last evening on her father's farm, by an agricultural rojler, drawn by a horse, which had bet'n left temporarily unattended. , ' • . WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE. , Whangarei, March 9 Mrs. Mnniiol Abrahams, 'of Kamo, was found hanging dead to a bedrail, with a short piece of'cord round iicr nock. The deed is attributed to despondency following thn death, two months ago. of a newly-born child. The Coroner's verdict was suicido while temporarily insane.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3024, 10 March 1917, Page 10
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