MISHAPS AND FATALITIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1933, Page 9

MISHAPS AND FATALITIES

KILLED ON BIRTHDAY.

[I’KB TBESB ASSOCIATION.] WHANGAREI, March 13‘. Mrs. Edgar Clements, one of the oldest settlers at Matapouri, was killed on Saturday, which was hex- sixtysecond birthday. She and her husband had been out riding, and she was about to dismount in a yard at home, when a gale blew a kerosene tin below her horse, which plunged. Mrs. Clements was thrown off and received a fracture of the base of the skull and died. INFANT’S BODY FOUND. MASTERTON, March 12. The body of a newly-born male child was found, wrapped up in a newspaper, alongside a creek near the town yesterday afternoon. The discovery was made by two Maoris, who were out eeling. CYCLIST KILLED. CHRISTCHURCH, March 12. Knocked down by a motor car while cycling in Ferry Road at. 8.20 p.m. on Saturday evening, Frank Leslie Palmer Moran, vaudeville artist, suffered injuries to Hie head from which he died at. the hospital at eleven this morning. The driver of the car was Neil Williamson. SOUTHLAND VICTIMS. INVERCARGILL, March 12. While the thatching of an oat stack at Underwood was being- carried out on Saturday, Morgan O’Brien, aged 79, fell off the stack, bein'g killed instantly. The deceased not engaged in the work of thatching, and he apparently climbed on to the stack unnoticed.

Thomas Aitken, single, died in the Southland Hospital this morning as