ACCIDENTS.

Grey River Argus, 21 July 1926, Page 5

ACCIDENTS.

PC VERT Y BAY FATALITY. INQUEST. GISBORNE, July 20. Further details of the death of 11. R. Wood, manager for Dalgety's. show that he was assisting to lop some willow trees, using a small tomahawk. When a member of the family he was staying with at Ormond, went to call him for afternoon tea, she saw him lying face down in a small creek, close to where he had been working. There was a small cut on the top of his head, which appeared to have been cause-1 by a glancing blow of the axe while lopping one of the branches. It is considered that deceased must have had a seizure and fallen into the water, which was about nine inches deep, the indications pointing to drowning. GISBORNE, July 20. At the inquest on Henry Robson Wood, manager of Dalgety's Gisborne branch, a verdict was returned by Air E. C. Levy, Coroner, that death resulted from drowning. The Coroner found further.that there was no evidence as to how the deceased came to he in the creek which resulted in his drowning, or as to how his injjury was inflicted, the only theory available being that deceased, while in the act of chc-pp;ng willow branches with a tomahawk, ac cidentally eaught thc end of thc tomahawk in a branch, and the tomahawk deflecting, inflicted a wound which partially stunned deceased, who fell into the water and was drowned. A HARD Al AN TO KILL. OPOTIKI. Julv 20.. A shocking accident occurred on the Waioeka Road, 15 miles inland from Opotiki. Jack Donnelly was cycling from Oponae towards town with a man named Woodside, when In* fell thirtv feet over a bank. He struck a rock and then fell into the river. Woodside helped him out, after which lie walked and cvcled five miles, when ho was picked up by a motorist and taken to the hospital, suffering from a fractured skull and dislocated neck, and bad cuts behind the ears. railwaYTatality. . TE KUITT, July 20. Evidence was concluded on the in quest on A. A. Adams, found frightfully mutilated at Te Kuiti on Thursday morning. There was no evidence to show why deceased left the shelter station and got on the line. It was proved that he was struck by the south-bound express on Wednesday night. No blame was attached to anyone. FISHERMAN DROWNED. AUCKLAND, July 20. Watson Oxley, married, 45 years of age, was drowned at Whitianga, while laving down a mooring for a crayfish tank. His boat was found floating bottom up. Searchers discovered Ox ley’s body close in shore.