ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
FOOT CAUGHT IN MACHINE. When Allred Shaw, aged thirty-six, a machinist, was feeding a planing machine at, Foster Teller's sawmill, Whangarei, yesterday afternoon his foot came in contact with the blade. Four toes were amputated at the hospital this morning.—Press Association. DROWNED IN CREEK. A Tauranga settler, David Scott, aged thirty-five, was drowned at Kaimai. It appears that he went to the creek to attend to a ram, and when he did not return a brother went down and found the body in the creek.—Press Association.
Captain Griffith Richards, aged eighty-six, of Pembroke House, Bournemouth, North Wales, recently celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of his discharge from the crew of the Great Eastern, following her successful cable-laying voyage in 1866. A cat named “Jennie” actually is on the United States Federal pay roll. Congress makes an annual appropriation to keep her well provided, and in addition gives her chief housing concession in the Post Office building at .Washington.
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Evening Star, Issue 19410, 19 November 1926, Page 10
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