ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10193, 4 January 1926, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

PICNIC FUN LEADS TO FATALITY. GIRL DISLOCATES HER NECK NELSON, Jan. 2. Lucy Olsen (25), a single woman, met her death in tragic circumstances at Thorpe yesterday. She had accompanied a picnic party from town While at a farm-house she got into a trap standing in a shed, and two of the party, in a spirit of fun, got hold of the shafts and pulled the vehicle out, -when the deceased struck her head against a beam in the doorway, and dislocated her neck, dying in a few minutes. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned.

THROWN FROM PICNIC LORRY

WELLINGTON, Jan. 1

Betty Valvert, 10, had her leg broken, and Victor Kelly, 16, injured on the head when a seat collapsed on a lorry carrying a picnic party returning from "Petone last evening. The lorry swerved, displacing the seat, and the two children were thrown on to the road. They are now in hospital.

SUICIDE BY POISONING

THAMES, Jan. 2

Mrs McGrath, 41, wife of a fisherman at Tanner’s Point, Katikati, died yesterday as a result of poisoning, self-administered.

FOUND DEAD

WELLINGTON, Jan. 2

An elderly man, William Lake, was found dead in a city hotel yesterday morning. He had not been in the best of health.

MOTOR CYCLIST COLLIDES

WITH CAR

WELLINGTON, Jan. 3

Donald 8011, with his son were returning home on Sunday night on a motor cycle and side-car, when they were struck by a car. Both were admitted to hospital. Bell’s leg was fractured. —P.A. BOY CYCLIST’S FATAL COLLISION WITH CAR. WELLINGTON, Jan. 3. Norman Marshall, eleven years of f age, while riding a bicycle, collided with a motor-car at Lower Hutt and fdied from injuries.—P-A . 7 Who p avs the' bill for the injured worker? Consult the Standard Insur ?nce Company for full protection. C. G. Bloorp, chief agent, G, bedaon localmanager.—Adrt. h' t > * * _ ./: ■: