ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 21945, 4 February 1935, Page 12

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

DROWNING TRAGEDIES. A Pukemiro miner, John Thompson, fifty-one years of age, married, was drowned while fishing at Raglan. At 3 o’clock on, Sunday morning a party went fish-spearing at dead low water, and Thompson fell into a deep hole and disappeared. It was pitch dark, and the search made by his companions proved fruitless. Alan Francis, aged twenty years, single, was drowned ,at Castlecliff (Wanganui) yesterday, when, in company with Donald Coull,_ aged eleven years, he went for a swim above the usual bathing place and was caught in the undertow and swept out to sea. John Coull, aged seventeen years, who was on the shore, endeavoured to reach him, but was unable to do so. > The younger boy Coull just managed to get ashore. The body of Colin Dawson, who was drowned at Waitarere Beach last week, was recovered on Sunday afternoon close to the place where he lost his life. DEAD IN HIS TAXI, Walter Howard Ferdinands, aged twenty-seven years, was found dead in a taxi at Makara Beach, Wellington, on Saturday morning. He was lying on the front seat with a pillow under his head. The doors and windows were closed and the engine was running. The deceased, who was a taxidriver, was last seen between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m., when he left a letter with a friend.

BOY INJURES FOOT. William Lowe, aged twelve, whose parents reside at 88 Norwood street, dropped a brick on his foot and fractured a small bone. He was admitted to the hospital yesterday afternoon. KILLED IN COLLISION,

Thomas Ronald Brassel, aged nineteen, of Waipukurau, was killed in a collision on the Taupo road this morning between a car and motor cycle. The deceased, a pillion rider, suffered head injuries.—Napier Press Association. MOTOR CYCLISTS INJURED, Two motor cycles, collided this morning at 7.40 at the intersection of Hcrl>ert and Gunness streets. William Quinn (26) had Alfred Jcnkinson (20) as a pillion rider, and Stanley Haines (24) had Percy Willis (15) as a pillion rider. All were injured. Willis suffered serious head injuries, and all but Quinn wore sent to the hospital.— Greymouth Press Association,