ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22952, 9 May 1938, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

KNOCKED FROM MOTOR CYCLE*

Facial injuries were suffered by Alexander M'Cluo,, a single man, who resides at 30 Richardson street, on Saturday ' evening ■ when he was knocked from his motor cycle by • a motor ear in- King Edward street. Be was admitted to the Hospital at 6.15 p.m. BOY’S LEG FRACTURED. As ’ a result of falling over a stick while playing at his home on Saturday, John Rendell, a boy who resides with his parents at 17 Sydney street, suffered a fractured right leg. He was admitted to the Hospital at 6.10 p.m. INJURIES TO FACE. Thrown, from his bicycle in Anderson’s Bay road yesterday ■ morning, when the front forks ofhis . bicycle broke, a youth named Seaton is ! Brien, who lives, with his parents at 43 Pat- . rick street, suffered facial injuries and shock. He was admitted to the Hospital at 11.25 a.m. , AN INFANT SCALDED. Hugh. Woodward, an infant.who liyes with his! parents at 6 Farley (street, Roslyn, suffered scalds on the thighs on Saturday night when he pulled" a jujg of boiling water over himself. He was admitted 'to the' Hospital at 9.13 p.m. DEATH AT TROTS. An inquest was- held atiDamaru this ’morning on , William Ernest Barry (69), who resided at 60 Stafford -street, Dunedin, and who died at the Oamarq Trots on ■ Saturday. Reginald A. P. : Cos. Dnhedin, .gave evidence that deceased collapsed soon after entering the totalisator. Dr Fitzgerald testified that death was due. to coronary embolism and a verdict was given in accordance with the medical evidence.- Deceased had been ill for a number of years. He leaves a wife and daughter.—Oamaru 1 correspondent.

DROWNED IN WAIKATO RIVER. As-m result of the capsize of , a small boat in which two men were pulling themselves across the Waikato - River, near Qngaroto, yesterday afternoon a, man named Cyril Hedge, aged 43, married. of Hamilton, was drowned and his companion, Joseph Winstanley, also of Hamilton, had a narrow escape from sharing his fate. The two men were members of a party of .seven engaged in . pig hunting, near Atiamuri. - The reason for the capsize of the boat is not known, but owing to the swift current of the river at this point and the turbulent rapids just below any one precipitated’into the fiver would have a small chance of survival unless he was an exceptionally strong swimmer.' A search is being carried out for the body of Hedge.—Rotofufi Press Association.