ACCIDENT & FATALITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12752, 7 January 1936, Page 2

ACCIDENT & FATALITIES.

DISAPPEAR ANCE INTO HARBOUR MAN BELIEVED DROWNED (Press Association.) ■WELLINGTON, Jan. 6. , James Duggan, aged 40 years, of Ireland, is believed to have been drowned in the harbour off Aotea quay yesterday. It is stated that Duggan went for a walk with two companions, and when they wore going along' the quay he broke away from them and jumped into the water, disappearing almost immediatelyHe w.as a, mapried, man. and. it, is thought that his wife lives in Ireland. SMALL BOY FRACTURES SKULL <Press Assueiatioti.i DUNEDIN, Jan. G. While playing ‘at Brighton on Saturday, James Johnson, aged six years, whose, parents live at Mosgiel, fractured his skull and was admitted to hospital. FALL DOWN SHAFT IN OLD FORT. VOUTH IN HOSPITAL.

(Press Association. \ AUCKLAND, Jan. 6. While exploring underground passages in a disused fort at Bastion Point, near Mission Bay, yesterday afternoon, a young man, Maurice Armstrong Elwin, a Post and Telegraph Department employee, fell several feet into water in a darkened shaft and was . dragged to safety by a companion, L. Irvine, just before lie collapsed. He is noiv.in tile Auckland hospital. His condition is not serious. The accident happened shortly after young men had decided to separate to go along different passages. Who pays the bill for the injured? Consult the Standard Insurance Company for full protection.—S. G. Northe, local manager. -(Advt.)