ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10730, 30 October 1928, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

SCHOOLBOY INJURED

(Special to tho Times.) OPOTIKI, Oct. 29. Ken Hansen, a schoolboy, aged 15, when playing football to-day, fell and broke his leg. and was removed to tho Opotiki hospitaL FOUND DEAD NEAR) GAS MAIN (Press Association.! WELLINGTON, Oct. 29. Charles Henry Jones. 23, single, was found dead in Mayfair Flats, Wellington, lying close to a gas main .from which tho cap had been removed. MOTOR CYCLISTS COLLIDE THREE YOUTHS AND GIRL IN HOSPITAL (Press Association.; NEW PLYMOUTH, Oct. 29. By a collision between two motor cycles at 2 a.in., five miles out of New Plymouth on tho Junction road, Edward Cyrus King and John Jenkins received severe head injuries. Stanley Olson received a fractured leg and Mona Seabright a fractured no.se. All are in hospital. The victims are unfit yet to give an account of the accident, THROAT COT WITH RAZOR. (Press Association.• AUCKLAND, Oct. 29. 1 be body of Eddie Campbell, a halfcaste Maori, was found on a farm at 3’eiirose with the throat cut. and a razor alongside the dead man’s hand. He was a widower, 56 years of age. and was employed bv the Public Yorks Department on the railway construction works at St. Heliers Bay. MOTOR TRUCK COLLIDES WITH TRAM POLE. THR EE CHi LOREN IN-J URED (Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 29. As a result cl a light motor truck which their father was driving crashing into a tramway centre pole, ji; J 1 reemaii s Bay just before six o'clock tins evening, three children of J. .J. Sutton received various injuries. The oldest boy, Albert Sutton, aged D. was cut about the lace and received concussion; John, aged 6, received a Tractip'o of the left thigh: and a sister. Jean, received injuries to her •ieft eye and forehead". The father escaped without serious injury. Later. tlie bov John was admitted to the hospital and his condition was regarded as satisfactory. The children had just been picked up bv their father and the truck was’ turning when the steering gear failed. The truck, which was heavily laden with clay, hit tlie centre-polo with some force and was badly damaged. Tram cars were held up until the assistance cf a heavy lorry was enlisted to drag the disabled truck to the side of the. load. Tlie truck was owned by Sutton and was not insured.

FATAL FALL OF SAND. (■Press Association.' DUNEDIN. Oct. 29. David McNeil, married, need 55, residing at Fairfield, was killed bv a fall of sand at Shield’s sand pit this afternoon, it appears that deceased was standing in one of the sand bins when a fall of sand from one cf the hoppers used for feeding trucks buried, him. He was suffocated before the, fall could be removed.. BODY WASHED UP. 'Press Association.; DUNEDIN, Oct. 22. Tlie North Dunedin police were notified this morning that the bod- of a man in a state of decomposition had been washed up from the harbor by the tide and was later identified as that of Edward "William Thomas Spencer, widower, aged 56 years. The body had probably been in the wafer for about six weeks as the deceased had not been seen since September 5- An inquest was opened at the morgue and evidence of identification was taken.