FATALITIES

Grey River Argus, 27 November 1944, Page 3

FATALITIES

MANAGER’S DEATH. PA. DUNEDIN’, November 25, Mr. William Handel Mackenzie, Dunedin city transport manager since 1919, collapsed and died at his office yesterday. He was born in Dunedin sixty-three years ago. He is survived by his wife and. one daughter FARMER’S FATAL COLLAPSE. P.A. OFOTIKI, November 25. Mr. August Jtansfield, a farmer, of Kutarere, Opotiki, aged 50, died suddenly from heart failure. He had addressed a gathering at a Maori meetins: house at Kutarere and was leaving the building when he collapsed. YOUTH KILLED BY TRAIN. p.A. GORE, November 24. John Sazackerley, aged 18, a farm hand emoloyed by Mr. P. Whiteside, Waipahi,” was killed instantly when he was struck by the Clinton-Tapa-nui train two miles north of Waipahi this morning. It was raining at the time of the accident, about 11 o’clock. It is not known why Sazackerley was on the track. Sazackerley’s home was at Dunedin. FATAL CAR ACCIDENT. P.A. WELLINGTON, November 25. Mr. Carroll Bernard O’Donnell, Wellington. solicitor, of O’Donnell, Cresswell and Sudby, was killed instantly when his car collided with an iron lamp-post outside the Wellington Railway Station last night. The car was badly x wrecked, the engine being driven back into the bodywork. It appears that the steering wheel struck Mr. O’Donnell on the jaw af?d broke his neck. There appears to have been no witnesses of the .accident, which happened at 11.15 o’clock.