FATALITIES

Grey River Argus, 29 October 1932, Page 4

FATALITIES

WAIKATO BARGE ACCIDENT. (Per Press Association). HAMILTON. October 28. Fatal injuries were sustained by Leslie Gordon, aged 38, of Mercer, a skip p'er employed by the Roose Shipping Coy., while loading logs on to a barge on the Waikato River, half-way between Hamilton and Cambridge to-day. A winch chai n snapped, inflicting a crushing blow on Gordon, who was brought to Hamilton by a boat, but he c*xpired on arrival. He leaves a wife and ten children

BOY CYCLIST KILLED. DUNEDIN, October 28. Stewart Ikin, a schoolboy, aged 15 received fatal injuries this afternoon, as the result of a fall from a bicycle. The boy, while riding down York Place, collided with a little girl, and he died on tho way to the hospital. The girl was also seriously injured.