ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 21889, 28 November 1934, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

RUN OYER BY LORRY. A middle-aged man named William Sunley, a resident of Hastings, was killed through being run over by amotor lorry while returning from his work on the Tutaekuri River diversion yesterday afternoon. Sunley was cycling home, and when passing the shingle quarry at Pakowhai, near Hastings, his bicycle skidded towards' the middle of. the' road. The lorry was following behind him and' was carrying a load of relief workers from the same task as Sunley had been engaged on. The driver apparently had not time to stop nor to swerve out of the way. Sunley i is survived hy his widow and several children. COLLAPSE DURING OPERATION. An inquest was held yesterday afternoon into the death during an operation at Prospect House of James Muir Craig, a railways bridge carpenter. The coroner was Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M. • . Dr Cottrell said that, assisted by Dr Moody, as well as by Dr Allan, who administered the anaesthetic, he operated on the deceased for intestinal obstruction on Monday morning. A largo cancerous growth was discovered, and when ■witness was about to remove it the deceased collapsed and died at about 10.45. Witness had attended the deceased for some time, and considered he was quite fit for the operation. Similar evidence was given hy Dr Moody and Dr Allan, and the coroner returned a verdict that death was due to a toxic condition of the heart, accelerated by the anaesthetic, there being no blame attachable to anyone. CAR CRASHES INTO TELEGRAPH POLE. Due to the steering gear locking a car driven by Mr D. G. Robertson* fields inspector in. the Lands Department, crashed into a telegraph pole on Ormond road this morning. Mr J. W, Pearce, one of the six occupants of the car, was seriously injured about the head.—Gisborne Press Association. A MAN’S DEATH. Joseph Dykes, aged sixty, was discovered at his home at Waitoa road, Hataitai, this morning with his throat cut. He was rushed to the hospital, but succumbed shortly afterwards.— Wellington Press Association. FRACTURED LEG. James Ball, a married man, residing at Wakari, sustained a fractured leg this morning while at work in the Harbour Board quarry at Port Chalmers. The ambulance conveyed him to the Public Hospital for treatment.