ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
DEAD IN HIS WHARF. Tlio body of John Gilmour Smith, a single man, about sixty years old, employed for the past fifteen years on Mr G. N. Pharazyii’s station at Mungatoro, was found hanging from the rafters of his whare.—Dannevirke Association telegram. CHILD DIES FROM SCALDS. An Auckland Association message states that Rita, the two-year-old daughter of Mr E. Hegh, of Papakura, died at Auckland as the result of scalding on Monday. Rita was being chased by her brother, aged four, when she bumped into a pot which her grandmother was lifting from the fire. The boiling liquid spilled over her face and chest. GIRL KILLED BY CYCLE. A Gisborne Association message states that Marcia Margaret Carrington, aged fourteen, whilst walking along a country road with tier mother on Tuesday evening, was run into and knocked down by a youth, Albert Lamb, on a motor cycle.. She sustained concussion of the brain, and died in hospital today.
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Evening Star, Issue 19856, 3 May 1928, Page 6
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