ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 56, 8 March 1915, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

WELLINGTON GIRL'S NECK BROKEN. .(BI TELEGRAPf!— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) HASTINGS, This Day. Perie Carpenter, aged 17^, of Grantroad, Wellington, who was visiting spme friends at Hastings was killed instantly yesterday afternoon. She and " her cousin, Mina Carpenter, were riding double-banked on a horse which bucked and threw both girls. Perie landed on her head and broke her neck. The other girl escaped with a badly bruised hip. [Deceased was a daughter of Mr. George Carpenter, of the Government Advertising Department, who left for Hastings last night.] INVERCARGILL, This Day. Francis Wilson, aged seven years, while riding in his father's cart fell, and the horse trod cm his chest inflicting injuries from which he died a few hours later. Adam Don, a, shunter at the Bluff, was seriously injured through a truck jumping the rails. It crushed him against another truck and his leg was severed. His condition is critical. Frank Butler, aged eighteen, whilst riding a motor-cycle to the Territorial camp, collided with a cart and sustained severe injuries to his head. He has recovered consciousness, but his condition is serious. ROTORUA, This Day. On Saturday afternoon a. Maori boy, aged seven, named Tahunga Kereopa, fell into a boiling pool at Whaka, being fearfully scalded on the body, arms, and legs. He is in a critical condition. While crossing the approach to the Hutt Bridge on Saturday afternoon a young boy named Ernest Fredrickson was knocked down by a motor-cyclist, receiving a broken collarbone and a bruised leg and arm. After being attended to by Dr. M'Donald the injured boy was removed to his home on Hutt-road. An accident which almost ended fatally occurred at Island Bay on Saturday morning. Miss Moyra Dee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. Dee, 199, Clydestreet, while bathing a little distance from the shore, got into difficulties, and but for two little girls witnessing her struggles from the beach and attracting the attention of a male member of the Life Saving Surf Club, who promptly went to her assistance, she would have lost her life, as she had gone down for, the last time as he reached the spot. Two ladies bathing some distance away, noticed the young lady throwing her arms about, but thought she was doing the side-stroke. They afterwards rendered valuable assistance.