ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 September 1924, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MOTOR CYCLIST I JWTJIUSD. (BY’ TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WHAKATANE, Sept. 1. H. Pook was injured at the Ohope beach yesterday through a motor-cycle and side-car overturning. Pook suffered from a fractured skull, upper jaw and nasal bones, and his condition was critical this morning. The occupant ot the. side-car was unhurt. THEFTS FROM CARS. PALMERSTON N., Sept-. 9. At the Police Court Kenneth Augustus Humphrey, a fnarried man, pleaded guilty to six charges of theft,, mostly goods from cars parked in the towm and was sentenced to various terms ot imprisonment totalling six months. MOTOR OVERTURNS. HASTINGS, Sept. 1. A converted motor lorry, proceeding from Hastings to Otane, skidded and overturned near Temahanga on Saturday, pinning C. Bone and A. L. Holland under the seat and throwing D. Hey wood out. A passing car extricated the men,- who miraculously escaped with slight injuries. The lorry was badly damaged. KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR. . Auckland, Sept. 1. A widow named Mrs Emma Howard, aged 62, is in hospital with severe injuries sustained through being knocked down by a motor car. Her injuries in, elude a severe cut on the head and a broken wrist. There are also indications of broken ribs. BOY STRUCK BY SLIP FROM CLIFF, . HASTINGS, Sept. 1. A unique accident occurred to a party of schoolboys visiting Gannets yestei'day. When passing along the sea beach under high, precipitous cliffs at Clifton a slip came down, the debris just catching a boy named Easam, fracturing both bones of the right leg. He was sent to hospital. The clifts always appear dangerous, hut this is the first time that an accident has- occurred. Thousands of people have passed under them visiting the famous Gannet rookery'; DEATH OF FOOTBALLER, ROTORUA, Sept. 1. On Saturday afternoon, in a football match between Waikite and Rotoiti, after the breaking up of a scrum a player named James Dalziell, aged 30, iriarried, with one child, was seen to have been seriously injured. His limbs were paralysed. He was taken to hospital, where the X-ray showed a dislocation of the spine. An operation was decided upon, revealing extensive injuries to the spinal cord. Dalziell died at 2 a.m. to-day.