DOMINION TRAGEDIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 January 1944, Page 2

DOMINION TRAGEDIES

DENNISTON CHILD 'DROWNED.

WESTPORT, January 23. Idris Holbrook, aged eight, was drowned in the power-house dam at Denniston this morning. . The child was apparently playing nearby while several other children were bathing. He was not noticed for some time. After a search his body was recovered.. Artificial respiration was tried without success.

FATAL INJURIES. AUCKLAND, January 23. A visitor to Auckland who wab knocked down by a bicycle m Ponsonby to-day suffered from which she later died in hospital. S was Mrs. Ellen Plank, a widow, aged 54, of Dunedin.

CYCLIST KILLED

NEW PLYMOUTH, January 23. As a result of severe head injuries, William B. Hoskins, aged 68 years, married, with an adult family, died in the New Plymouth Hospital this morning. He was riding a bicycle' at Waitara on Friday mornins when he collided with one ol a group of military vehicles travelling in the same direction. He was thrown to the ground and severely injured. Pending the arrival ox an ambulance he was attended by an American doctor travelling with the convoy and by a _ Waitara doctor. Hoskins was a builder.

DEATH IN MINE.

WHANGAREI, January 22. Mr. William Wellington Moonie, a Maori, ‘aged 24, married, with two children, employed as a trucker at the Hikurangi coal mine, was found dead yesterday. If is presumed that he had come in contact with an electric power line.

FARMER’S DEATH.

ASHBURTON, January 23. Noticing a tractor and three-fur-row plough circling, unattended, m a paddock on Saturday evening, a passing motorist investigated and found John Mclntyre, a farmer, ageo 70, lying dead across thp front mouldboard of the plough. Mclntyre, a farmer of the Ashburton district, was ploughing on the farm of his neighbour, Mr. W. Wells, on Saturday afternoon, and he had been seen, still at work, at 6 o’clock. The motorist, Mr. George Lysaght, of Ashburton, found him dead at 6.50. He had apparently fallen from the tractor and .was lying with his left leg caught across the front of the mouldboard.

FOUND DEAD

CHRISTCHURCH, January 24. Robert Heenan Simpson, aged 39, of 530 Castle Street, Dunedin, was found dead in bed at a city hotel. Simpson, who was a visitor to the city, did not appear at luncheon. When the licensee’s wife went to investigate she found him dead in bed at 1.30 p.m. William Thomas Barker, aged 27, of 13 Walker jStreet, died suddenly at his home at 2 p.m. Both were single men.

David Fitzgerald, married, aged 58, a billiard room proprietor, of Ashburton, was found dead at 9 o’clock yesterday morning on his stairs. He was in night attire.