ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 21582, 30 November 1933, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

FATAL INJURIES. Following serious injuries suffered when he was knocked down by a car on Tuesday evening, the death occurred at the Palmerston North Hospital of Clifford Wilson, aged seventy-three, * resident of Manakau. The accident occurred near Manakau, Wilson suffering concussion and a compound fracture of the right leg and dislocation of the lef* ankle. CHILD DROWNED IN WELL. Falling into an old well at Miramar yesterday afternoon, Ronald Paterson, aged four and a-half years, a son of Mr and Mrs E. A. Paterson, of Wexford road, was drowned. Ronald and his sister, Patricia, aged two, were play* ing on a section close to the gasworks.Patricia returned homo alone, and al subsequent search revealed Ronald a body floating face downwards in eight feet of water. WOMAN’S BODY RECOVERED. The bodv of Mrs Rosa Boyle, wife of Mr A. P. 'Boyle, who had been missing since Friday, when she disappeared, after bathing in the Waian River, was found yesterday about fifteen miles downstream from the place where she -is believed to have been drowned. An inquest was opened at Cnlverden last night, and was adjourned to Christchurch.