ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11013, 28 January 1926, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

MISS OLSEN LOSES AN EYE. SIGHT OF OTHER MAY BE DESTROYED. AUCKLAND, Jan. 27. A sad feature of the motor car smash at Papakura on Sunday is the fact that Miss Olsen, one- of the passsngGrs, Avas so badly injiuod ■fchciti it has-been found necessary to remove one of her eyes. It is reported she -hill probably lose the sight _or the other eye. Her condition is said to be very serious. OARS COLLIDE. SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED. TE KUITI, Jan, 27. A violent head-on collision occurred on the Otorohanga. road, near Otorohanga, yesterday afternoon, between a service car bound for Hamilton and a private sedan driven by U. M. Moore-Jones, of Remuera, Auckland. , . . , , Both drivers escaped injury, but Mrs M. Bedford and Jessie Ward, 11, of New Plymouth, passengers in the service car, were badly cut by broken glass. Mrs Moore-Jones was severely cut about the face .and Mrs M. A. - Cullen, of Auckland, a passenger in Mr Moore-Jones’ car, is suffering from shock. The fronts of both cars were reduced t-o scrap iron.

BURNED BY MOLTEN LEAD AUCKLAND, Jan. 27

Cyril Franklin, a single man, is in a, serious condition in hospital suffering from burns about the right arm and hand, caused by splashes from molten lead as cold flux was being poured into a ladle. —iP.A. LAD’S FATAL INJURIES AUCKLAND, Jan. 27. William Jones Webb, 13L died in hospital as a result of injuries received while playing with a revolver. —P.A. TWO GIRLS DROWNED AT WANGANUI. WANGANUI, Jan. 27. Two children, Cecily Lay, 10, and Eli."zbeth Alice McLean, 12, ywere drowned in tragic cireumstancin the Wanganui river to-day. The victims were bathing with a party of children when the elder girl got into difficulties. The younger girl rushed in to help her out. Both got into a strong current and were drowned. The accident occurred at a lonely spot opposite the Imlay freezing works,- and no one was about nor for 'twenty minutes was help available. The girl McLean’s body was found in eio-htT feet of water within half-an-hour, while the other girl’s body was recovered three hours in four feet, of water. The children had been warned not to go bathing, lour individuals have been drowned at Wanganui.within the last- ten. days.— 7 ;P.A. 7 „-N •'..'■C- £-' • -’'