DEATHS BY ACCIDENT

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 80, 1 October 1924, Page 15

DEATHS BY ACCIDENT

(BY TBLEORAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

s _ NEW PLYMOUTH, 30th Sept A distressing occurrence, which terminated fatal y, took place at Waitara on Sunday, the victim being a two-year-old child, Rex Oswald Bristol, son of J. S. Bristol, a labourer employed at thi Waitara freezing Works. The child had been eating some coconut, and iust after doing so was playfully chased" by his sister. He then began to cough violently, and showed signs of suffocation. k doctor was summoned, and he saw some small portions of coconut in the child's throat, which b.9 was unable to remove. He therefore ordered the child to be taken to the New Plymouth Hospital, where he died this morning.

DUNEDIN, 30th September. A sad motor fatality occurred at the intersection of King Edward road and Melbourne street. South Dunedin, early this evening, A boy named John Henry Milrie, eight, years ol age, son of Constable Milno, was crossing the road from the Recreation Ground to his home, when he was knocked 'down by a motor-car and killed instantly. The car contained six young men going to drill at the battery. The driver of the car wa> .Tames p'irrows.