ACCIDENTS

Grey River Argus, 9 May 1935, Page 2

ACCIDENTS

(Pur Press Association). WELLINGTON, May 7. It is expected that the payment of the bonus of £312,000 to growers of tlie 1934 wheat crop will be made about May 15 by the Wheat. Purchase Board. DUNEDIN, May 7. The express which is due at Dunedin from Invercargill at 6.23 p.m. arrived fifty-five minutes late this evening, as a result of a tube bursting in th? engine when passing Abbotsford. The fireman, John Stanley, had opened the door of the furnace to add fuel when the tube burst, causing the flames to burst back, inflicting burns to his hands, face and back. AUCKLAND. May 8. Advice received by the New Zealand Blind Institute that under the terms of the will of the late Catherine Lumsden, who died at Wanganui on April 10, the Institute will receive the whole of the estate, valued at approximately £4OO. About £2OO will be in cash. Severe scalds to the chest and right arm were received by an invalid returned soldier, Archibald JMalcolm MacKinlay, aged 50, married, when he fainted and fell into a bath of hot water. He was admitted to the Auckland Hospital His condition is serious. Lying across the hath in such a manner that his right shoulder and right side of his chest were in the hot water, MacKinlay was severely scald ed when found. He was wearing only pyjamas. He had fal’en direetlv beneath a jet of hot water coming from the tap.