ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22683, 24 June 1937, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

TELEGRAPH BOY FATALLY INJURED. Fatal head injuries were suffered by a motor cyclist, Victor Percival Yates, a telegraph messenger, aged 17, of Ponsonhy road, Auckland, when he came into collision with a motor car driven by Christian Henry Dubi, a farmer, of Huapai, at an intersection. Yates was riding along Ponsonby road, and came in contact with the front of the motor ear, which was travelling in the opposite direction across Ponsonby road into Pollen street. Yates struck his head on the radiator of the car and was thrown heavily to-the/pavement.; He was unconscious when picked up, and died before the ambulance arrived. FALL IN STREET. James Jackson, aged 74 years and » pensioner, residing at Waitati, fell in Princes street yesterday, and was admitted to. the hospital where he died at 3.5 p.m. An inquest will be held to-morrow morning at 9.30. A FRACTURED SHOULDER. While pushing a wheel chair yesterday, , Sarah Freeland, an elderly woman, who resides at 21 Jackson street,’ Kaikorai, suffered a fractured left shoulder. She was admitted to the hospital at 4.43 p.m. FOOTBALL FATALITY. While playing Rugby for Tapanui District High‘School at Tapanui yesterday in the annual game with Lawrence District High School, Gordon Buchanan, aged 15 years, dropped dead. The lad, who wasa son of Mr David Buchanan, forest ranger at Tapanui, was running with the ball, and, when he was collared, collapsed and died. The football match was abandoned after the fatality. An inquest will b« held at Tapanui to-morrow.