ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
A CHILD DROWNED. An Association message from Opotiki states that the six-year-old daughter of Mr Anderson, postmaster at Oponae, twenty-three miles inland ■ from Opotiki, was drowned in the Waioeka River yesterday. SLAUGHTERMAN GASHES HAND, At Burnside yesterday a slaughterman named J. Knight, while killing a sheep for the Refrigerating Company, severely gashed one of his hands. The man received attention at the outpatients’ department of the hospital. SUICIDE. At the inquest in Greymouth on Edward Scott, who was found hanged in a hut at Rewanni, a verdict of suicide by hanging was returned. The evidence showed that Scott, commenting on the suicide of another miner, said “It was the easiest way out.”
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Evening Star, Issue 19196, 12 March 1926, Page 6
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115ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 19196, 12 March 1926, Page 6
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