ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11834, 16 January 1933, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

jf CYCLIST KNOCKED DOWN BY : / LORRY. •YOUTH IN SERIOUS CONDITION. (Press Association.* l AUCKLAND, Jnn. 15. Grave injuries to the head including a'fracture of the skull were received by James Arkhurst, aged 20, of Puke-,-kohe East, as the result of being ■knocked from his bicycle by a motor truck on the Great South Road at T-ft'knnini early this morning. ’Arkhurst, who is employed as an .operator at a picture theatre in the city was riding along the Great South Rond toward Papakura at about one o’clock, when be was overtaken by a (truck, driven by M, H. Alexander, of Clevedon. The truck collided with fthe cycle from the hack, and Arkhurst ‘was thrown heavily. • The injured man was brought to 'Auckland Hospital. His condition is serious. The bicycle was wrecked practically (beyond repair. CAUGHT BY UNDERTOW. -NARROW ESCAPE AT ST. HILDA. MASTER. LEX MACDONALD. ■ , DUNEDIN, Jan. 12. A narrow escape from drowning .was experienced by Master Lex Mac..donnld, well-known boy soprano, at :St. Clair yesterday afternoon. Master Macdonald was swimming out in the surf, when a number of people on the beach saw that he had been caught by the undertow and swept away. Air. Ivan Turnbull went ;ont immediately, and succeeded in (reaching the boy, bolding him up nn. ,til the surf club team brought out ,a line. Mr. Turnbull already holds a HuInane Society award for effecting the rescue of a nurse at, St. Clair two 1 years ago. YOUTH KILLED. DISCHARGED OWN GUN BY ACCIDENT. (Press Association.* INVERCARGILL, Jan. 15. While on a fishing and shooting expedition at Northope (near Winton) on Saturday afternoon, William Walker, aged 17, of Invercargill was, it is presumed, accidentally fatally shot, although no member of the party of four actually saw the fatal shot fired. It appears that Walker discharged his own gun by accident, death being almost instantaneous. The bullet, entered the right side above the liip. A CCIDENT ALL Y DR OWNED. STX-YEAR-OLD GIRL’S DEATH. tP •ess Association-) INVERCARGILL, Jan. 15. A verdict of accidentally drowned, no blame being attachable to anyone, was returned at the inquest on Daphne Winter, 6 years, who was drowned while rowing on the Mataura river on New Year’s Day, with her faihe, James Winter (Monzios Ferry). The body was found a. week later.

BARMAN INJURED

BOTTT.E OF STOUT BURSTS. (Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 15. Severe cuts to both bands arvl wrists were received by Arnold Agnew, aged 22. barman at the Claredon Hotel, when a bottle of stout he was holding burst in bis hands. Agnew was taken to Auckland hospital. and several stitches were inserted.-" -