ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
FOUND UNCONSCIOUS. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION N WAIROA, July 16. A married man named Frank Frost engine-driver at the Public Works Department at Tahainui siding, on the Waikokopu railway, was picked up late yesterday afternoon unconscious and badly injured about the thighs, and was removed to hospital. It is surmised that he wa s caught in the hauling winch operating the return of an empty drag sefoop.
BADLY BURNED. T Ar . n BLENHEIM, July 16. James Mi Is, a returned soldier, a°-ed 40, was badly burned at- Picton His hrother-m-law was lighting the kitchen fire, and nicked up what he thought was a kerosene tin to start the hlife u U )? s; h l ou ; eve ‘ - , « benzine tin half full. It exploded, and the flaming contents poured over Mills, who was standing close by. The man ran to a ater hole and lumped in, but was very nfriy T ned i was removed to hospital, where he lies m a serious condi-
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 July 1924, Page 9
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165ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 July 1924, Page 9
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