ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 99, 23 October 1924, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

(BT TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

NEW PLYMOUTH, 22nd Oct? Two men, Charles Nicholl (aged 44) and: .William. Foster, (aged : 34), ; both '■ watersiders, and married, were drowned off Kawaroa Park this afternoon. The men left early in-the afternoon to go fishing in a dinghy, which capsized 300 yarde off the shore. Plucky rescue efforts resulted in Foster being brought ashore, but he was then dead. Nicholl was entangled in.the dinghy's gear, and his body was recovered by a launch. The ■boA was fairly; choppy, and it is presumed that the men-were both engaged on one.side of the boat, causing it ,to "upeet. /Nicholl had . rjo family,; bus Foster had two young children.

NAPIER, 22nd October. In respect to the death of Felix: London, i son of. K. Loudon, •of Napier, ■which was. reported from London this week, advice has been received that the shock of learning ' from a' doctor in London that active tuberculosis had begun long before 'deceased left' Napier ; was\top much for deceased, whose'mind was thus temporarily unhinged.

. ::.GREY:MOTJTH,.22rid..October;: A fatal accident, occurred to-day at 1 p.m. at a etreefc crossing, Georga Frederick Gray : (14 years of age),, a telegraph, messenger, collided on a bicycle with a motor-lorry driven by Charles Rugg. The boy's legs went ;under a fore wheel of the lorry, .and his head .beneath the back wheel; death being almost instantaneous. .''-..