ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 25425, 5 March 1945, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

SISTERS DROWNED.

Two sisters, Lavina and Norma Dawson, three and five years respectively, daughters of Mr and Mrs L. A. Dawson, of Bluff, were drowned in a pond near the engine sheds at Bluff on Saturday afternoon. No one knows exactly what happened. A small boy who had been playing with the children came home alone about 2 o'clock. A railway fireman, R. O'Sullivan, saw a child floating in the pond. He promptly went in ana dragged her out. _ He applied artificial respiration,. which was continued for three-quarters of an hour without success. By this time a number of persons were" on-the scene, and when it was realised that the other child was missing the pond was dragged and the body recovered. FATALLY CRUSHED BY RAILWAY TRUCK. Crushed by a railway truck at Makarewa on Saturday afternoon, George Millis Dawson Mawdsley, aged 62, suffered severe injuries and died a (few minutes later. Mr Mawdsley, who was employed at the Southland Frozen Meat Company's Makarewa works, with other men was engaged in loading trucks in the works siding. Other trucks were being shunted |by a tractor, and Mr Mawdsley was caught between a moving truck and a stack of bags of salt which stood beside the line. The clearance between -the tr.uck and stack : was small, and he was severely injured about the ribs and the lower gart ofrthe body. ' ._