ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 September 1927, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SHIP’S OFFICER’S FATAL FALL. (by tklegrarh—press association.) AVESTPORT, Sept. 26. Thomas Mahon, aged 72, and married, chief officer of the s.s. Canopus, when having the hatches removed thijs evening in preparation for the loading of coal, fell into the hold and was killed instantaneously. He held a master’s certificate, and had done a lot of trading in sailing vessels in all seas. It is understood his wife resides in Christchurch, and that he has a grown-up familv.

KILLED BY FALL OF EARTH. OHAKUNE, Sept. 26. While working on a Public Works Department road job at Pungataua, about 30 miles behind Karioi, E. Pedersen and B. Bullock were caught in a fall of metal on Saturday afternoon. Pedersen was killed, but Bullock was carried over the road and fell 30 feet. He was covered in debris and escaped with a very severe shaking. SERVICE CAR CAPSIZES. GISBORNE, Sept. 26. Word was received in Gisborne this evening of a motor fatality on tlie coast road between Ruatorea and Port Awanui. A service car driven by Jack Brennan, and containing four passengers, Michael Hickey, Mark Borlace, George Richardson and the small son of Borlace, left Fort Awanui towards dusk to go to Ruatorea. About six miles from tills latter township the car, in rounding a bend, capsized, and rolled over three times. Hickey was dead when found, and the other three adults were suffering from bruises, cuts and shock. The small boy was uninjured. Hickey was of middle age and married, with one child, and resided in Ruatorea, where lie was ia business as a plumber.

DIED FROM INJURIES. AUCKLAND, Sept. 27. Airs Elizabeth Sarah Short, aged 72, has died in the hospital as the result of injuries received when she .was knocked down -by a motor car at a road corner Un Epsom last evening. Her grandson, Leslie Hosking, also received severe laceration of the leg. They were about to board a tramcar they were struck by a motor car which' did not stop. Airs Short,, who is wellknown in Wellington, leaves a husband, All- W. S. Short, and six children, She arrived in New Zealand about seventy years ago.

ELDERLY WOMAN’S DEATH. AUCKLAND. Sept. 27. Airs. C. Chamberlain,* aged 74, residing at Mount Albert, who wars admitted to hospital on Sunday with a broken thigh, died this morning.CHARGES AGAINST TAXI-DRIVER GISBORNE, Sept. 27. Jack Brennan, the driver of the taxi which overturend last night near Ruatorea, resulting in the death of Michael Hickey and minor injuries to the driver and two others, was arrested and charged with being intoxicated while in charge of the vehicle, also with causing bodily 7 harm.