ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19436, 20 December 1926, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

MOTOR FATALITY. A motor fatality occurred near Shannon on Saturday evening,_ when a man named 11. Boonfield, believed to belong to Hawera, lost his life. Boonfield was given a lift along the road by Joseph Patrick Lavin, of Wellington, who was proceeding south_ in his car. Going down a hill outside ot Shannon the driver kept out to the left, expecting to meet an up-coming car which he had observed previously. Going round the corner the car went over the side, and fell 20ft. Lavin extricated himself, hut _ Boonfield’s skull was fractured. —Levin Press Association telegram. MOTOR FATALITY. A Palmerston North Association message states that inquiries made by the police at Hawera go to _ show, though there is no actual certainty, that the man killed in a motor fatality at Shannon on Saturday is Roy Victor Bloomfield, aged about twenty-eight. ' He had heene stopping with hisuncle at Hawera, but left there on December 10 for Shannon in search of employment. WOMAN FOUND IN DAM. Tho body of Alice Steffcrt, married, iged thirty, was found in a dam at Whareroa yesterday afternoon. She had been missing since Saturday morn■ng. —Hawera Association message. * BEATS FROM POISON. A woman named Hannah Dorothy Vercoe, married, aged twenty-six, who was admitted to Wairau Hospital nine day’s ago suffering from lysol poisonmg, died this morning.—Press Associafion. BICYCLE FORK IN FACE. Mason Granger, aged eighteen years, who lives at Macandrew’s Bay, was taken to the hospital yesterday afternoon as the result of a bicycle accident. He was cycling near Waitati when the forks of his _ machine broke, and one ran into one side of his face near an eye. The injury was not serious, though tho youth was operated upon. VICTIM IMPROVING. The condition of William Turnbull, who was knocked down by a motor lorry a few days ago and taken to the hospital, is gradually improving. DEATH FROM A FALL. A man named Alex. Mnskill, who received severe injuries to his back ten days ago as the result of a fall from a horse, died yesterday in the Clyde Hospital. FOUND DEAD. The Superintendent of Police has received advice from Ophir that Mrs Mary Bailey, a married woman, aged fifty-two, of Bluff, who had been staying with her daughter at Armstrong's farm, Poolburn, was found dead in bed yesterday morning. Deceased had been medically attended for spasmodic asthma.