ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12610, 20 July 1935, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

MOTOR CYCLE AND' TRUCK

.COLLIDE

ONE YOUTH DEAD AND ANOTHER BADLY INJURED. fPres3 Association CHRISTCHURCH, July 19 Otto- Robert White, ng-rd 17, Ron of Ottp CL White.. .hairdresser,. New Brighton, was killed Avhen a motor cycle li 0 was riding, in Page’s 'rout this afternoon, strii-ck the Urtr Of a carrier’,c( truck owned by E. L. Smith and driven by William Anderson Barclay. A! pillion rider on the bicycle, Francis Board'slcy, aged 18, of Lonsdalo \trcot New Brighton, Avas badly injured and Ava s admitted to hospital. White suffered severe- head injuries and died within a, few minutes of the nefident. KILLED BY IRON PLATE. <Piess Association a. ■ INVERCARGILL, July 19 While engage,.! in rivdttin~ work today on the steamer Ea-rnshayv, which is at present undergoing her annual overhaul at QuoenstoAvn, Orkney James Stovenson, aged 32, married, with a- child aged three, wag killed when an iron plate Aveighing 1501 bs, u sed for conveying coal from the tvba-rf to the strip’s bunkers, fell on him. lie received a severe lracturc* of th e skull anj it is thought flint his neck "’as broken. At the time of' the .accident, the EarnstiaAv; Acns mo-o-red tliree foot from the Avhr.n and Stevenson Ava-s standing on the chafing board between the ship anf? tlie Avharf, his head being, just above the level of the raised portion around: the edge of the wharf. T- IIR vihr’a.t'On arising from the rivetting operations caused the pin Holding tlie plate to slip out of position and the plate fell on SteA-ensoii’s head. A. doctor was immediately summoned but Stevenson, who had been Hfte u on. to the wharf; died just as he arrived. Who pays the hill for t.Tio injured: Consult the Standard Lisin ante Company for full protection.—S. G Nortlie. local manager. ( «,dvt 1