ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 24002, 29 September 1941, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

JOCKEY THROWN AND KILLED. Thrown from his mount, Irish Pearl, just as it was passing the finishing post in the first race at the opening of the Ohiuemuri Jockey Glut’s Spring Meeting at Paeroa (Auckland), on Saturday, an apprentice jockey died at the Waikato Hospital on Sunday morning as the result of head injuries. The victim was Mostyu Morshead Poole, aged 1(3 of Tauranga. He had his first ride at the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s meeting at To Aroha on the previous Saturday, when he took part in four races. TERRITORIAL KILLED. A young Territorial soldier was killed and two other young men were injured when two motor cycles were involved in a head-on collision in MKenzie road, Mangere (Auckland), about 7 o’clock on Saturday night. The victim was Cecil Don Ashwin, aged 18, of Mangere. The injured were:— George Daniel, suft'eriuug from a fractured right thigh and head injuries, condition serious; and Gilbert Noel Matthews, aged; 19, suffering from head injuries, condition not serious. The deceased had almost completed bis Territorial training, and had been on leave at homo for the week-end. MISHAP WITH AXE. Claude Bedford, a truck driver, married, aged SO, of 14 Duke North Dunedin, suffered! a compound fracture of the left foot yesterday, caused by the slipping of an axe, with which he was chopping wood at his home. He was admitted to hospital at 2.30 p.m. CYCLIST INJURED. Robert Hardy, a married man, who resides at 278 Oxford street, Smith Dunedin, fell from his bicycle in Bathgate road on Saturday, fracturing bis left leg. He was adniittecl to hospital at 4.45 p.m.