ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
MOTOR CYCLE COLLISION. While riding a motor cycle last night Oswald Williams, single, aged twentythree years, and residing at 923 Cumberland street, collided with a motor car at the corner of Clyde and Union streets, with the result that his right leg was fractured. He was taken to the hospital at 11 o’clock. KNOCKED DOWN BY MOTOR LORRY. Two young children of V. Lee, a Greymouth jockey, were knocked down by a motor losry yesterday at the Reel'ton racec<v.irse. The boy was cut on the face and the girl was removed to the-hospital, where her condition this morning was reported to be very low.— Greymouth Press’ Association telegram. INQUEST NECESSARY. l-tonry Charles Austin, a middle-aged man, was admitted to the Waikato Hospital last night, and died twenty minutes afterwards. The circumstances neco.-siute the holding of an inquest.— Hamilton Association message.’ FARMER’S SUICIDE. A man named Joseph Coumbe, a farmer, aged about fifty, committed suicide by cutting his throat at Paroa last night. He was found in the yard by his wife.—Greymouth Association message.
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Evening Star, Issue 19758, 7 January 1928, Page 9
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176ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 19758, 7 January 1928, Page 9
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