WEEKEND TOLL

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 11

WEEKEND TOLL

STRUCK BY CAR A MAORI KILLED ACCIDENT AT LOWER HUTT Injuries which resulted in his death in the Wellington Hospital at 5 a.m. yesterday were received by a Maori, Percy Warren, aged 33, who resided at Naenae Lane, Lower Hutt, when he was knocked down as he.was crossing the Hutt Road, Lower Hutt, near the Maori meeting house, at 7.50 p.m. on Saturday. Mr. Warren had alighted from a car and was crossing the road when he was struck by a car proceeding north, the driver being Edgar Colin Nankivell, of Lower Hutt. He received a compound fracture of the left leg, a fractured right thigh, and concussion. Medical attention was given before he was removed in the Free Ambulance.

The deceased is survived by his wife end two children.|

FATAL INJURIES

MAORI RUGBY PLAYER

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, This Day

A Maori Rugby player, Andrew Hereto ain, died in the Wanganui Public Hospital early on Saturday night as a result of injuries received when playing in a third grade match at Bulls. Krremaia, who was aged 33, was a r-ember of the Rata team and during <" mcloe his head was struck accidentally by another player's knee. Heremala;walked off the .field but subsequently collapsed. j

Following medical attention, first at Bulls and later at Marton, he was admitted to the Wanganui Hospital at 7 p.m. and died at 7.30.

GUN ACCIDENT

DOG RESPONSIBLE

CBy Telegraph—Press Association.)

BLENHEIM, This Day. When E. A. Francis, a farmer, of Ward, was leaving his homestead on Saturday to go shooting, a dog knocked a shot-gun out of his grasp. The weapon' exploded, the charge entering one hand, from which four fingers were subsequently amputated in the Blenheim Hospital.

SEVERE INJURIES

CAR OUT OF CONTROL

(Bj Telegraph—Prmt Aeioeintion,)

TAUMARUNUI, This Day. A car driven by Thomas Neill, of Manunui, with John Jamieson, Hunterville, and Thomas Roper, Manunui, aa passengers, got out of control while! approaching Taumarunui on the main road late yesterday afternoon. The car shot across the road, colliding with a telegraph pole, and turned upside down. , Jamieson was, taken to hospital- with severe injuries to his spine. Roper and Neill were only slightly injured.

PLUNGE OVER BANK

CAR DRIVER BADLY HURT

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to the "Evening Post.")

MASTERTON, This Day. James Foreman, aged about 40, is in the Masterton Hospital in a fairly serious condition as a result of injuries received when his motor-car plunged down a bank at Whakataki yesterday evening. Exactly how the "accident occurred is not known.

Mr. Foreman sustained serious back injuries with paralysis. He was at-tended-to by Dr. J. C. Forsyth and taken to the Masterton Hospital in an ambulance.

YOUTH KILLED

ACCIDENT WITH SHOTGUN

While attempting to kill a wounded bird with the butt of his shotgun John Arnold Tongs, aged 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. V. T. Tongs, of Putaruru, was killed yesterday afternoon as a result of the gun being accidentally discharged, states the Putaruru correspondent of the "New Zealand Herald" of today.

The youth left his home with a friend at 1.30 p.m. for the Craka stream with the intention of gathering watercress. On the bank of the stream half a mile below the town, he brought down a bird with the shotgun he was carrying. The blows on the butt of the gun as he struck at the bird set off the live cartridge, the pellets entering his chest and one arm. !

MAN FOUND DEAD

SEPARATED FROM MATES

fßy Telegraph—Prens Association.)

WANGANUI, This Day.

Henry Thomas Milton Jones, 28, single, employed by the Ordell Timber Co., who accompanied two companions to Kauangaroa on a rabbit-shooting expedition yesterday morning, became separated from his companions, having intimated that he would go over a ridge to ldok for rabbits. 1

As he could not be located again before dark his companions returned to Wanganui and reported the matter to the police. Three constables found the body at 2.15 this morning lying across a pea rifle. There were no marks of injury on the body, and it is presumed that Jones dropped dead.