WEEK END ACCIDENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 September 1933, Page 7

WEEK END ACCIDENTS

REP. FOOTBALLER’S INJURIES CYCLE & TAXI COLLIDE [FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, September 18. R. Hazelhurst, the Canterbury Rugby representative and his fiancee

Dulcie Cameron, lie in a serious condition at the hospital, the result of being thrown from a motor-cycle in a collision with a taxi, in Ferry Road, last evening. Both have head injuries and both have been unconscious throughout the night. The accident occurred at 10.10. Hazelhurst was riding a motor cycle and Miss Cameron was a passenger on a pillion seat. They had attended the concert at the Civic Theatre and were travelling along Ferry Road. The taxi was proceeding along Fitzgerald Avenue from north to south. The collision occurred near the centre of the intersection. Hazelhurst was thrown forward and his head and shoulders Were precipitated through a pane of glass in the rear window. Miss Cameron struck her head on the upper portion of the car. The occupants of the taxi, besides

the driver, were three members of the crew of the Canberra. All escaped injury. The motor cycle was badly damaged.

DUNEDIN CYCLIST KILLED. _ DUNEDIN, September 18. Ralph Knarston Joseph, 25, received fatal injuries on Saturday, when his motor cycle swerved over a stone throwing him. on his head. He died before the ambulance arrived. His sister, riding pillion, was uninjured.

WOMAN’S FATAL BURNS. HAMILTON, September 18. Shocking burns, resulting in her death in the Waikato Hospital, yesterday, were sustained by Miss Bessie Ferguson Keith, 45 years, at Hillcrest, on Saturday. Deceased, who was a resident of Auckland, was visiting her sister, Mrs W. T. Nelson. Miss Keith was cleaning clothes with benzine, during the absence of Mrs Nelson from the house. i

When the spirit was ignited by flames from the kitchen stove, her clothes caught fire, and she rushed outside, rolling herself on the ground to extinguish the flames. When Mrs Nelson returned, she found Miss Keith with her hair and clothes burned off. She was rushed to the hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries early yesterday morning.

DRAY VICTIM. PAHIATUA, September 18. J. F. Freder, 62, who -was the victim of a dray accident, at Konini, died at the hospital, this morning.

MAORI CHILD DROWNED. ROTORUA, September 15. A Maori child, Toi Woods, aged two and a-half years, was drowned in a deep well near Owhata Point, Lake Rotorua, this morning. The child was missed about 8 a.m., and the body was found floating in the well. Mr D. Galvin jumped into the water and brought out the body, the child being then dead. Mr Galvin’s action w-as commended by the coroner, Mr W. L. Richards, at an inquest held during the afternoon, when a verdict of accidental death was returned.