ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22195, 25 November 1935, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

FATALLY STRUCK BY CAR. A Hamilton Association ' message states that, following serious injuries received as the result of being strucjc by a motor oar while walking along the Main South road, two miles south of Ngaruawahia, Mrs Eileen Courtenay (34), a widow, succumbed in Waikato Hospital. Deceased was walking to Ngaruawahia at the_ time, and was struck by a car driven by A. E, Plummer, of Auckland. She is survived by three young children, her husband having died three months ago, FALL FROM LADDER, , Denby Terry, aged 58 years, was ad-, mitted to ..the Hospital on Saturday « evening suffering from shock, injuries to the head, and a fracture of the left wrist, caused through a fall from a ladder. He resides at Ethel street, ■ Wakari. 1 > MOTOR CYCLISTS INJURED. When the motor cycle they were riding skidded off the road at Christie’s Corner, on the Main South roadrmear Henley, last evening; Edward Rendall, 20 years of age, living at- 40 Gamma, street, and Allan Thomson, 21 years of age, residing at 17 Gamma street, ■received concussion, abrasions, and shock. They were admitted to ths Dunedin Hospital at 9.15 p.m. 1 DROWNING FATALITIES. While fishing with two companions from a jetty at Governor’s Bay, James Herbert M'Faul, aged 14, of Whiteleigh street, Addington, fell into tha sea and was drowned. M'Faul was walking backwards on the jetty when he fell. One boy threw in a lifebuoy, and the other, James Kevin, aged 12, ‘ stripped and went to the assistance pi M'Faul. Kevin managed after a hard struggle to bring M'Faul to the rocks on the shore, but M'Faul was dead. Resuscitation was tried, for an hour, without avail.—Christchurch message. \A double drowning occurred on Saturday afternoon at Three Mile, near Hokitika. Two boys, cousins, Alan Finch, aged 10, and James Finch, aged six, walked upon some sawdust along the hank of a creek, evidently thinking the deposit had-a solid foundation, whereas it overlay water. The boys were not missed till th« evening, when a search showed tha hand of the elder boy reaching just above the surface of the sawdust. Tb# recovery of the other body has not yet been reported. The parents resid* nearby. CHILD MISSING. An Association message from Whakalane states that a child 12 months old, the son of Mr and Mrs Reg. Cannell, of Tarawera, wandered from his homo on the bank of the river at 4.30 yesterday afternoon and has not been seen since. Search by the police and neighbours is continuing: The Cannes came to the district from the Waikato a year ago and took up a farm near the Tarawera settlement..