ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
A CHILD DROWNED. A Waihi Press Association telegram states that lato yesterday afternoon the two and a-half-year-old son of Mr and Mrs M. Hovell strayed from home, and was last seen playing on a bridge over a swiftly-running stream at 5 o’clock. Despite an all-night search by 200 neighbors and Girl Guides, the body was not found till 11 a.m. to-day 200yds up the stream from the bridge. It is surmised that the child overbalanced when crossing the stream on a floating log, and was held in a hole by an overhanging hawthorn bush.
INSTANTANEOUS DEATH. Isaac Wade, single, aged forty-two, was killed tills morning at the Ohinemuri gold and silver works at Marototo, near Hikutaia, on tho Thames line. Ho was oiling up .while tho machinery was running, when a pulley burst, pieces of which struck and killed him instantly.—Thames Press Association telegram.
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Evening Star, Issue 18716, 19 August 1924, Page 6
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147ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 18716, 19 August 1924, Page 6
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