ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 25169, 8 May 1944, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

DUCK SHOOTER DROWNED. While duck shooting on a property at Mount Biggs, near Feilding, On Saturday morning, Mr A. Gresham Frost, aged about 40, son of Mr J. F. Frost, hotel licensee, of Feilding, was drowned in a lake. It is understood the deceased w*as attempting to recover birds shot down when he got into.diffieulties. CYCLIST KILLED IN COLLISION, A cyclist who was seriously injured in a collision with a bus in the city early on Saturday afternoon died shortly after admission to the Auckland Hospital. He was Mr William Henry Molloy, single, aged 30, if baker's labourer, of Grey Lynn. Mr Moiloy was cycling down "Symonds street, when he collided with a bus owned by tho Passenger Transport Company, which was travelling iii the same direction. He received a fractured skull. CYCLIST INJURED. Knocked off his bicycle by a motor car in Anderson's Bay road on Saturday afternoon, Douglas Bilton (16), who lives at 37 Oakland street, suffered head injuries that necessitated his admittance to the Hospital at 5.46. BURNS TO LEGS.

Burns to both legs were suffered by Graham Silence, aged three, who lives with his parents at 27 Eskvale street, when his clothes came in contact with an electric heater yesterday morning at his home. His condition was reported by the Hospital authorities to-day to be satisfactory.