DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 3 August 1925, Page 9

DOMINION NEWS.

A MOTORING ACCIDENT. ( LIT TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.) PALMERSTON N., Aug. 3. While proceeding to Wellington yesterday to attend the conference of power hoards’ engineers, Mr Waters. chief engineer to the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board, accompanied by his wife and young son, met with a serious motor accident. The front tyre burst, and this caused the car to capsize, pinning the occupants beneath the car. Mrs Waters and child escaped with bruises and shock, but Mr Waters sustained a fracture to the base of the skull. He lies in the Palmerston North Hospital in a serious condition. He retained consciousness throughout. ACCIDENTS AT DUNEDIN. DUNEDIN, June 3. James Paterson, aged 70, fell from a tramcar on Saturday night and suffered a severe fracture of the facial bones. Hugh Albert Parker and A. NThompson, employees of the Post and Telegraph Department, left the wharf in a trawler yesterday morning. Latei Thompson was missed from the deck, and is presumed to have fallen “■overboard and drowned. accident ends fatally. AUCKLAND, Aug. 3. Knock Wilson, aged 77, died at the hospital from an injury caused by a fall on a concrete path on July 14. T,' a o A,I TO TATITT ATTA TW. AT>

r aivijuxv x -l * TATJMARUNUI, Aug. 3. Owen Dinsdale, a- well-known Manunni stock dealer and farmer, was found shot dead on Sunday morning near a. wliare on his farm. Tlie side of his head was blown away. A gun was reside the body.