ACCIDENTS AND TRAGEDIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 July 1941, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND TRAGEDIES

KILLED BY CAR AUCKLAND, July 27. Struck by a motor-car, whose driver allegedly failed to stop, a Maori labourer, who was admitted to tne Auckland Hospital on Saturday, died this morning. He was Andrew Marsh, married, aged 45. Marsh was crossing Hobson Street, near the intersection with Cook street, when he was knocked down. The police are making inquiries for the car. CAR STRIKES POLE. ' AUCKLAND, July 27. The driver and one passenger were seriously hurt when a sedan motorcar, with four occupants, struck a telegraph pole near St. Mary’s Cathedral, at 3 o’clock this morning. The driver, Desmond Lewis, a seaman, single, aged 25, was extensively cut about the head by glass and suffered concussion. Miss Karin Lansberg, aged 18, of Brooklyn Flats, who was sitting in the front seat, received severe head injuries and lacerations, and is in a critical condition. The condition of Lewis is serious. Owing to damage to the car, the injured persons could only be brought out of the wreckage with difficulty. The pole was canted at an angle and insulators were broken by the impact. BURNT TO DEATH. DUNEDIN, July 27. .Fire which broke out about eight o’clock this morning jn a hut on the farm of Mr F. J. Townsend, Merino Downs, caused the death of an elderly man, Frederick Robert Cullimore, who was employed on the farm. Cullimore was last seen alive about 9 o’clock last evening r when he visited the residence of the farm manager, Mr J. A. Robertson'! This morning Mr Robertson saw smoke issuing from the hut and on opening the door was met by a burst of flame. He succeeded in getting to Cullimore and dragging him outside, but an examination of the body showed that the man was dead. Cullimore. who was about 60 years of age, was, it is believed, single, and it is understood that he has a brother in the Oamaru district. The origin of the fire is unknown.

WOMAN’S FATAL BURNS

ASHBURTON, July 26. Mrs. Gertrude Wilkinson, aged 62, died this afternoon as the result of burns on the face and body received yesterday afternoon when her dress caught fire at her home. Mrs. Wilkinson was sitting in front of a fire and apparently reached up to the mantlepiece when the accident happened. - .