ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 23352, 23 August 1939, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

TARGET SHOOTING MISHAP. A bushman, Mr Jack Groves, aged about 30, single, of Rangataua, was accidentally shot in. the jaw while practising target shooting with a pea rifle,i Several men at the camp were practising shooting, 1 and Mr Groves, after adjusting the target, came from behind a building just as one man fired. The bullet shattered Mr Groves's jaw and lodged in his throat. /He _ was rushed to the Raetihi Hospital, in a critical condition, The; injured man was later transferred to the Taumarnnui Public Hospital. GELIGNITE FATALITY. An inquest on the_ body of Gavin Charles Cotter, who died in Whangarei Hospital on July. 19 following terrible injuries caused by the explosion of » drill which he . was dressing at the Tauroroa quarry, was held yesterday. A verdict was returned that death was due to shock following an explosion of gelignite which . had accidentally got into a drill durin-g earlier boring operations. FATAL HEAD INJURIES. While crossing the Parade at Island Bav (Wellington) at 6.30 last evening Vivian Claude Parker, of Devonshire road, Miramar, a. married man with one child, was struck by a motor car and received head injuries from which he died almost immediately. Parker was a barman employed at the shamrock Hotel. NOSE FRACTURED. As a result of falling in the Octagon yesterday, Albert Senne, a resident of Miller’s Flat, suffered a fractured nose and was admitted to the Hospital. FATAL HEAD INJURIES. A young seaman, A. M’Kenzie, - died in hospital early this morning as a result of head injuries sustained when ha was struck by a girder while working in No. 3 hold of the Rangitata at about midnight. After attention by tha ship’s doctor he was hoisted from the hold in a sling, and sent to hospital.— Auckland Press Asosciation.