FATALITIES.

Grey River Argus, 23 April 1929, Page 5

FATALITIES.

MOTOR VICTIMS. Maori Killed. BY FALL OF EARTH. (Per Press Association). TAUMARUNUI, April 21. A Maori named Takotahi Puhia was killed at Okakukura on Saturday as the result of a fall of earth in a’cutting in which he was working. Life was extinct when the body was recovered. An inquest was opened this morning and was adjourned. DREDGE EXPLOSION. WANGANUI, April 22. The inquiry into the dredge Kaione explosion and the dea hs of Duncan McKinnon and Joseph Cable was con eluded to-day before M r J. H. Salmon S.M. The Coroner returned a verdict that Cable died as the result of an ex plosion in the tunnel of the Kaione the cause of death being fracture of the base of the skull, a broken neck, and other injuries. The Coroner said he was unable on the evidence to say what gases were responsible for the explosion. He al-o found that McKinnon died from suffocation. resulting from burns sustained in the explosion.

GIRL DROWNED. ASHBURTON, April 22. The body was found in the Rakaia river, 15 miles above th e Railway bridge, yesterday, and identified as Miss Bernice Thompson, 24. daughter of Joseph Thompson, farmer, Mt. Somers, who disappeared from her employer’s residence at Methven on March 11. FOUND DEAD. BLENHEIM. April 22. Elizabeth Emily Bridger, aged 57 was found dead by a married daughte. at her residence, Charles Street, Blenheim, apaprently from heart disease, MOTOR TRAGEDIES. SYDNEY, April 22. A motor picnic party in the Blue Mountains, stoppl'd the car under a large tree and eommjenced lunch, when the tree suddenly fell across the party. It killed Mrs Elizabeth Richardson 45, and injured four others, including her husband. The tree had been eaten at the roots by white ants. AUCKLAND, April 22. Mrs I).iris Lovelock, 39. who was struck by a motor ear on Friday evening, di.Xl at the hospital last night.

Another Suicide. CHRISTCHURCH, April 22. Robert James Watson Mitchell, aged 58 years, a tnarried man, was found lying dead in the kitchen of his home at Oxford Terrace with the gas ring turned on close to his headAt the inquest held to'day, the evidence was that the deceased had been in normal health, and had given no indication that he was likely to take his own life. The Coroner, Mr E. C. LeWy, S.M., returned a verdict that death was due to asphyxia, following on poisoning from coal gas. self administered.