ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 21091, 2 May 1932, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

SPORTSMAN DROWNED. Mr W. H. Kook, a garage proprietor, of Patea, was drowned in a lake at Manutahi, north of Patea, last evening. Mr Kook, with a party, had been setting decoys in the lake preparatory to the shooting season. Three of the men were attempting to cross the lake in a flat-bottomed boat when the waves caused by a high wind swamped the boat. Hampered by his heavy clothing, Mr Kook sank. Thc,other two, Gordon Scown and a boy, clung to the boat, but Sir Kook disappeared in the darkness. The body has nob been found. SHIP’S OFFICER INJURED. Michael Alexander M'Cormack, second mate on the steamer Gale, was injured at Wanganui on Saturday when ho was crushed between a hatch and a bale of wool. Ho was taken to hospital. His condition last night was satisfactory. OLD LADY RUN DOWN. Mrs Mary Gibson, aged seventy-six, a widow, of Sprcydou, Christchurch, was killed last night through being knocked down in Oxford terrace by a motor car driven by Colin Campbell. Visibility was poor at the time.—Press Association. FOOTBALLERS HURT. * Log injuries were sustained by two members of Taieri Rugby teams on Saturday afternoon. Playing for Taieri first at Bathgate Park, Kenneth M’Leod, aged twenty-three, ■■ hurt his leg and was admitted to the hospital. John M’Kcmde, aged twenty-four, was playing for West Taieri against ’Varsity C at Outran! when he broke his leg, and was also brought to the hospital. SLIPPED ON FLOOR. Through slipping on the floor at her home at Woodside a married woman named Lilian Bell, aged thirty-two, fractured her left leg and was admitted to the hospital about midnight on Saturay. OLD MAN KILLED. A man, eighty years of age, an inmate of tho homo of the Little Sisters of the Poor, at Anderson’s Bay, fell from- the top floor on to a gravel path this morning and was killed. He had been suffering from heart trouble.