ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19778, 31 January 1928, Page 1

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

CHILD'S FATAL FALL FROM LORRY. While riding with her mother and two sisters on a motor lorry from 1 eatherston to Carterton on Saturday, Evelyn Matenga, aged five years and iiiiie months, fell from the front scat beside the driver on to the road and fractured her pelvis and some ribs, and was admitted to the Mastcrton Hospital, where an operation was performed. but the child died yesterday morning. At the inquest a verdict was returned that the child died L oin in- | juries received through tailing from a motor lorry, the coroner adding that, while the driver (who was a relative of the deceased) apparently exorcised ordinary precautions, it was rather precarious placing small children on the trout scat of a lorry which had no doors. CHILD DROWNED IN RACE. At Darticld (Canterbury) a two- ; year-old child named Maurice John I Boulton was accidentally drowned in a water race running through his parent’s property at Kimberley. Tho child, who was just able to walk, made its way to a hole in the water race about lljyds from the house, and fell into it. " It was missed, and a search resulted in the body being discovered. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death by drowning was returned. ’ AMPUTATION* NECESSARY. A Te Kuiti Association message states that F. Workman, manager of the Whataroa Estate, whilst operating a farm engine, sustined serious injuries to his right rm, necessitating its amputation. Workman was working the engine, which had recently been installed, when one of the blades of the fan flew off, striking his arm just above the elbow, and cutting righ (through to the-bone. The injured man was taken to Hamilton Hospital, where it was found necessary to amputate the arm. His condition is fairly satisfactorily.