ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 23451, 16 December 1939, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

FATAL FALL FROM GRADER. 1 Severe injuries to the head, fac*, and body, from which he died soon after being admitted to hospital, were received by L. Simmons, a married man, of Newtown, Wellington, when he fell from a grader on the Hutt road late yesterday afternoon. The accident occurred at a point where the Public Works Department has considerable equipment used in the construction of the road. As Simmons fell from the grader his clothing was caught in some part of the moving machinery. He was dragged along the road for a short distance, and it is believed the injuries he received were inflicted by one of the wheels supporting the heavy vehicle. FATAL FALL. An inquest was held at the Hospital yesterday touching the death of an elderly man, David Auld, who died in the Hospital on December 14, following a fall from a ladder at his home a* Angle Avenue, Anderson’s Bay. tho day before. The.evidence!.disclosed that deceased was cutting’ s hedge when-tha mishap occurrd, and that he apparently suffered from a seizure. Evidence of Dr Sutherland, house surgeon, disclosed that the cause of death was cerebral haemorrhage, and the coroner (Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M.) returned • verdict accordingly. CONDITION SATISFACTORY. . The condition of Private William Young, who was. injured, in a troop train accident at Edendale pd Thursday night;' is reported •to be aatisfatv .-’ Privates James Nelson and Georg* Sheedy. who .were killed, .will he, accorded full military funerals on Sunday. men of the .first echelon at present on leave and returned soldiers parading. ; j" •' GIRL FRACTURES ARM. . A fracture of the left arm, the. result of a fall yesterday afternbon at Pukehiki, where she resides, was suffered by Betty Ayres, who was-ad-mitted to the Hospital. ■ 1 CONCUSSION THROUGH FALL. Owen Helm, a young .man residing at 50 Leith street, fell last evening and suffered concussion. He was admitted to the Hospital at 9 o’clock and-dis-charged this morning. RAILWAY PORTER INJURED. George Clifford Rutherford, a railway; porter, of 131 Main road, Eavensbourne, broke a bone in his ankle at Milburn last Monday through, slipping from a wagon, and was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital at'3.l6 p.m.yesterday. ■