ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22031, 17 May 1935, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

FRACTURED LEO. Injured by a fall of earth at Waiporl yesterday, Aubury Hill, aged 39, was admitted to the hospital at 2 p.m, H* was brought to Dunedin be the St. John Ambulance. HANDS BADLY CUT. An apprentice butcher, Sydney M'Laughlan, aged 16, who resides at 16 Mitchell avenue, was admitted to the hospital at 8 a.m. to-day with a badly cut right hand. He was chopping meat at Barton’s, where he was employed, when the accident occurred. While cutting wood with a circular saw at his mother’s home, Brockvilla road, David Hilmour, aged 20, severely cut his left hand, and was admitted to the hospital at 11 a.m. to-day. TWO NIGHTS IN THE BUSH. O. H. Clark, aged 61, of Tauranga, who was visiting nis son, H. Clark, of Nukuhou North, went shooting in the bush on the ranges at 1 p.m. on Wednesday. When no did not return on Wednesday night a search party was organised, but heavy rain set in at midnight and made the task difficult. Further parties wero arranged jesterday under the supervision of tha police. This morning Clark walked out to V. Wilson’s farm in the Waiotabi Valley, very little the worse for hia experience of two nights in the bush in wet weather. Losing his way. over the first range of hills, he followed the valley for about 14 miles to _ Waiotahi. —Whakatane Press Association;