ACCIDENTS

Grey River Argus, 30 July 1924, Page 5

ACCIDENTS

TROLLEYMAN injured (Per Press Assn). TAUMARUNUI, July 2d. Michael Whelin, married, aged 45 years, was admitted to hospital with a fractured spine received while travel-ling-on a trolley at the roar of a goods train ascending the spiral at Raurimu. He lost his balance and fell, being struck by the axle in rhe small of the back. EX-SOLDIER KILLED. BLENHEIM, July 29. A returned soldier, Arthur Conway, about .h), married, with one child, was cutting the limbs of a large tree at Picton yesterday afternoon. A falling branch’ curried, away tho ladder on which Conway was standing, ami he tell some distance, dislocating his neck. He died in the hospital three hours later. TWO RAILWAY FATALITIES. CHRISTCHURCH, July 29 Henry Woodley, aged G2, a married retired farmer, late of Earnshaw Station, Gleuorchy, Otago, was struck by mi engine at Ensor’s Road Crossing, Opawa, to-night, while walking over the line, receiving injuries from which he died on the way to the hospital in an ambulance. GISBORNE, July 29 As a result of a fall from a viaduct. George Henry Williams, farmer, of Rakauroa, lost his life to-night. As the train was nearing Ra’cauroa, Williams stepped off on to the viaduct, but missed his footing and fell eighty feet on to the road. He lay there for over an hour, and then was picked up and taken to a store, but he died Liter. Williams was about fifty years of