FATALITIES

Grey River Argus, 4 May 1937, Page 3

FATALITIES

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PALMERSTON NORTH, May 3. A shocking accident occurred at Milson aerodrome. Frederick Charles Norton, middle-aged, married, being killed instantly y when using an oxyacetylene plant to cut the top off an emptv benzine drum. . . It Ys believed that fumes rema’ning in the drum caused th e explosion. WELLINGTON,. May .2. Tragedy attended the opening of the duck shooting season in Wairarapa on Saturday. a youth, John Reginald Cole, aged 17, dying in th e Greytown Hospital, as result of a gunshot wound. He was shooting in a reserve a few miles from Featherston, with a party of other sportsmen, on Saturday morning. It appears that his gun was discharged when his dog jumped up at him, the shot injuring his arm and entering his armpit. He was taken to the Greytown Hospital, where the arm was amputated, and he died the same afternoon. He was a son of Mr and Mrs G. T. Cole, of Western Lake, Featherston. An inquest will be held.

CHRISTCHURCH May 2

A motor-cyclist, Albert Henry Taw endale. aged 21, died in the hospital from severe head injuries .suffered in the collision between the motor-cycle ho was riding and a heavy one-horse dray in Sawyer’s Arms Road. Tavendale,” who was travelling west, struck both the horse and the dray, which were travelling east. Mr J. M. McGarry, who was leading the horse, was uninjured. The force of the impact was so severe that the axle of the dray was snapped in two. The motor-eyclo was badly damaged. Collapsing in a tram bound for the Cashmere Hills early on Saturday afternoon, Francis Joseph Shacklock aged 76 years, of 18 Stoneyhurst Street, St. Albans, died almost immediately, after being taken from the tram. Mr Shacklock was a retired cricket coach. An inquest will not be necessary. WANGANUI, May 2. When his ear left the road near Marton on Saturday, John Janies Tylee, aged 83. a retired farmer, received head injuries from which ho died soon after removal to his home. A neighbour, Mrs George Black, who was a passenger in the car, received minor cuts about th 0 faco. Medical opinion suggests that a heart seizure was the cause of the accident.