MISHAPS AND FATALITIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 November 1934, Page 13

MISHAPS AND FATALITIES

KILLED BY LIFT. [per PRESS association.] AUCKLAND* November 16. William Kyle, 14, was killed instantly this morning by being crushed between floors in a goods lift, where he was working. It is believed that somebody on the floor above pulled the cable to bring the lift up, and that the youth made an effort to scramble on the top as the lift rose. His head was caught, and was terribly injured. He fell 20 feet to the basement.

MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED. TIMARU, November 16, Thomas Waite, aged 36, single, labourer, Bluecliffs, who was riding a motor cycle, with Stanley Stocker on the pillion, came into collision with a motor car, driven by James Calhoun Kay, law clerk, Timaru, on the Esk Valley road between 1.30 and 2 a.m. Waite received a compound fractiire of the lower right thigh and numerous fractures of the lower right leg. He died in the Timaru Hospital at 9.15.

YOUTH DROWNED. WANGANUI, November 15. •Joseph Knowles, aged 19, slipped or dived off a raft in a small lake at Marangai, live miles from Wanganui, about 7 o’clock this evening. He sank immediately. His body has not yet been recovered. His parents reside at Wanganui.

WOMAN KILLED. TIMARU, November 14. An elderly woman, Esther Josephine Rooney, a widow, who was knocked down by a car driven by Percy George Stevens at Timaru this afternoon, died in hospital to-night. The driver of the car was arrested and will appear before the Court. QUARRYMAN’S DEATH. CriiiISTCHURCH. November 15. In connection with the Halswdl quarry accident, John Joseph Quill, who was very severely injured when he was almost buried in - a. fall of rock, died from his injuries this afternoon.