ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22325, 29 April 1936, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

BODY RECOVERED. The body of the seaman named Jack M'xUillan, aged 57, of the crew of the motor ship Limerick, who fell into the water between the Prince’s wharf and the ship at Auckland and was drowned about midnight on April 20, was found yesterday at Narrow Neck beach. Special permission to open the inquest last week before the body,was found was given by the Attorney-General, Mr Mason. The inquiry was adjourned by the coroner after he had heard the evidence of several members of the crew of the Limerick. The inquest was to be resumed to-day. SCHOOLGIRL THROWN. A New Plymouth Association message states that when the pony she was riding home from school shied at a neighbour’s dog and threw her, Boris Jonas, the six-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs W. A. Jonas, of Nikorima road, Waitara, received severe lacerations to her face, which necessitated her admismion to the New Plymouth Hospital yesterday afternoon. The child was thrown head first into a barbed-wi.ro fence. Her brother Keith, aged 10 years, was also thrown from his horse, but escaped with bruises. The girl was taken to New Plymouth Hospital, where an operation was performed and her condition is reported to be satisfactory. FALL FROM ROOF. Through falling from the roof of M’Leod’s new building in Cumberland street this morning, Walter Fraser, a painter, employed by Smith and Smith Ltd., suffered head injuries. The injured man, who is 34 years of age, resides at 34 Wesley street. He was admitted to the Hospital at 8.50.