ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22723, 10 August 1937, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

KILLED BY FALLING TREE. A tragedy occurred on a bush farm at Table Flat, near Apiti, yesterday afternoon, when Robert James, an elderly man, was killed by , a falling tree. James and 0. Russell were foiling a ’totara, which got caught and hung in another. They chopped through two more trees, but one proved to be rotten. When it snapped suddenly James, who was very deaf, endeavoured to jump clear but failed. He was jammed by the chest against a stump. Russell sawed the tree through, but was unable to release his companion, who must have been killed instantly. The police and Dr Barnicoat were taken to the scene of the tragedy by settlers and the body was brought out. CHILD DROWNED IN RIVER. Falling into the Patea River yesterday, Leah Margaret Simmons, the two and a-half-year-old child of Mr and Mrs C. Simmons, was drowned. A group of children were playing on the river bank when the child overbalanced and fell into the water. The body was r ecovered 50yds downstream. CAR AND LORRY COLLIDE. Severe head injuries were received by a Pukekohe business man, William Henry Alexander, when his car come into collision with a heavy motor lorry north of Mercer on the Great South road yesterday. CYCLIST FRACTURES LEG. When his bicycle skidded in some oil in Stuart street yesterday, Alexander Miller,_ a married man, residing at 250 High street, fell and suffered a fracture of the right leg. He was admitted to hospital late yesterday afternoon. BODY RECOVERED. The body has been recovered at Clyde of Leslie Liddicoat who was drowned at Lowburn Ferry on July 13. An inquest was opened at Clycie this morning and adjourned to Cromwell.