ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 20034, 27 November 1928, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

KILLED BY FALLING ROOK. A workman at the Auckland City Council’s dam at Huia, named John Urquhart. aged forty-five, was killed by a falling rock yesterday afternoon. Urquhart was working in the quarry when a piece of rock fell, striking him on tho head. It is understood that his mates called to him to look out, but he walked into the path of the rock. His death was almost instantaneous. Tho deceased leaves a wile and two children. AIOIOR ACCIDENT. While proceeding to Dauncvirko from Weber at an early hour yesterday, a car driven by Christopher A. l erisen, licensee of the Royal Oak Hotel, Weber, when passing another car- wont over a hank and turned over several times before coming to rest right side up on a dump of manuka. The driver remained in the cor and escaped with slight injuries. His daughter, Mrs Brons, who was with him, was thrown out during tho progress of the car down the bank, and was severely injured internally. She is now in hospital in a serious condition. TWO FATAL ACCIDENTS. Two deaths occurred in .Pa Wellington hospital yesterday as tho result of injuries received in accidents. Tho deceased men are Thomas Alison, a married man, residing at 8 Grafton road, Rosencath, and John Ernest Alexandra, a single man, forty-five years of age, who lives at 32 Pui street, Lower Hutt. Alison, a carpenter, employed on the erection of a building, had not very long commenced work yesterday, when he overbalanced from a piece of scaffolding and fell to the ground—a distance of 75ft. Ho suffered injuries to the back, a fractured pelvis, and severe shock, and he later died from these injuries in the hospital. John Ernest Alexandra, who was knocked down by a motor car when attempting to cross the road near tho Lower Hutt railway station on the previous day, and received a fractured skull and several scalp and facial wounds, died in the hospital shortly after noon yesterday. A BOY’S DEATH. An inquest was hold on the body of Cyril Campbell Armour (fifteen), son or the Rev. T. W. Armour, who was killed at Sumner. The evidence of tho boy’s brother was that tho deceased sometimes took foolhardy risks, and also that since s recent operation, ho was subject to turns or giddiness. Otherwise the boy was normal and in very good health. The verdict of tho coroner was that the boy’s death was caused by a fall from the cliffs on to the beach. The coroner added: “It seems that in a spirit of adventure tho boy essayed a task in itself exceedingly dangerous in climbing on to the cliffs. We can only surmise that he fell from the cliffs to tho beach below, suffering injuries from which ho could not hope to live.’ 1