ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 21725, 21 May 1934, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

FATAL SHOOTING MISHAP, Frederick Ashton Price, aged fiftyfive, a well-known sheep farmer of Papatoetoe, went quail shooting on Friday afternoon and failed to return. After a two hours’ search the body was found on the slippery slope of a gully with a wound in the chest. An inquest was opened and adjourned. CHILD FATALLY INJURED. Rushing out to greet his uncle who had just arrived in a car, Seymour Redwayne, aged four years, a son of Air R. V. Redwayne, .a farmer, of Sanson, bumped into the rear mudguard as the driver was backing the car into the garage. He died instantly, supposedly from a broken neck. STRUCK BY MOTOR CAR. James Carruthers, aged fifteen, a telegraph messenger, was knocked off his bicycle in Tainui street, Greymouth, about 6 p.m. on Saturday _ by a motor car which, it is alleged, did not stop.The lad, who joined the Postal Depart, ment only recently, was sent to hospital with serious head injuries and last night was still unconscious. The police later charged a motorist with being intoxicated while in charge of a car. SOCCER PLAYER INJURED. While playing for Slaori Hill against Leith (second grade) at Prospect Park on Saturday afternoon, John Sands (thirty-one) fractured his right leg, and was brought in to the hospital at 3.50. Sands, who is a married man, lives at 7 Carlton street. 'CAR PLUNGES OVER PRECIPICE. Len Barry, aged 39, of Blenheim, met with serious injuries when a car plunged of a 100 ft precipice between Kawatiri and Harley’s Rock on the Blenheim-West Coast road. Two boys who were with him had a miraculous escape, being thrown out quite uninjured. Barry, who was pinned beneath the car, was rescued by settlers in the vicinity and conveyed to the Murchison hospital.—Blenheim Press Association. WOMAN OF EIGHTY-FOUR INJURED. When Alargaret Reid Dempster, 4 single woman, eighty-four years of age, fell from a chair at her home in Union street yesterday morning she suffered a compound fracture of tho left leg, and had to be admitted to the hospital at noon. FOOT BADLY BURNED. William Maclunes, aged twenty-five, residing at 73 Royal crescent, was working this, afternoon for the National Sfortgage and Agency Co. Ltd. making metal plates for the branding of wool bales when some molten metal fell over on to his foot, which was very badly burned; He was admitted to the hospital at 2.30.