ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3184, 7 September 1917, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

: StJDDEN DEATH. f By Telegraph.—Press Association. Waimate, September l>. A single man named Percy Ord, aged 327 employed in the National Mortgage and Agency Company's seeds depail> ment here, was discovered by anotnei boarder in a dying condition oil the "wr of bis bedroom at a loca. Hotel at :j .•.« o'clock this morning, and «p.red brfoie a. doctor arrived. It is believed heait fniture was the cause of death. Ord belonged to Tiniaru. JIOTQE ACCIDENT" AT MARTON. (B.v Telcgraph-Snecial Correspondent.) Marton, September,^. A motor accident occurred at Jlarton. hst evening when two well-known citizens of Wanganui sustained ««»'«•« appears that Vγ. Thos, Pargeto heaUh inspector for the district, and Mi. Robertson, confectioner, ot hangar mi. were on their way from Marton to WaganuTon the former's ""jtor-bicydo and sirtr-car' Just ns the motor-bicycle and "do-cr Jrein tie act of pa S 5.n K a bus, a motor vehicle, coming :torn Ihe opnosition direction, into it- Both the occupants of the smaller vehicle. were thrown out. mid the.machine w»s smashed. Jfr. EoberUon sustained a broken leg, but Mr. Pargeter was more fortunate, escaping with a very .severe shaking and sundry nesh wounds. _