ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 21 May 1928, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MAORI BOY ’S DEATH. I BY TIiLB6«ArB-PKESa ASSOCIATION.] L ' GISBORNE, May 19. A fatality occurred at Matawai this morning when a four-y ear-old Maori boy named Mahunga Poi Poi succumbed to injuries to an eye accidentally inflicted by tlie father of the deceased. The parents were taking the boy with them ccling in the Ivoranga stream, beyond Matawai. The father was landing an cel with a pitchfork and, not knowing the child was near, swung the fork round to throw the eel to tlio ground. The fork struck the boy. and one prong pierced his eye. The injured child was hurried to the district nurse’s home, but succumbed ou the journey. FAMILY INJURED IN MOTOR smash. GISBORNE, May 20. As a result of a collision, between two cars at Patutahi on Saturday evening one car, driven by Francis Parker, a lorry driver, containing his wife and three children, went head first into a wide drain and fell on its side, the occupants being thrown out. Mrs. Parker sustained broken ribs and chest and body bruises. Doris Parker, aged II years, had a wrist broken and suffered abrasions, and Jack Parker, aged, eight years, was cut about the legs. They were removed to the Cook Hospital, but none of the injuries are believed to be serious. Parker also suffered bruisds. The. occupants of the other car were unhurt. WEEK-END ACCIDENTS AT CHRISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH, April 20. Five accidents in which people were injured were reported to the police over the week-end. _ , As a result of coming into collision with a motor car at Riccarton . this morning, a cyclist, Oswald Benjamin Islip, aged 14, is in hospital with head and leg injuries. He is suffering from shock, and his condition is reported to be very serious. Three other cyclists were injured, none of them severely, by being struck by motor cal’s. Playing in a senior hockey match on Saturday, H. Hale sustained a broken leg.

FOUR MEN INJURED. INVERCARGILL, May 20. Four men were admitted, to the Southland Hospital on Saturday night as the result of motor accidents. Albert Taylor and Michael Ross were knocked down by taxis, the former suffering from head injuries and Rossfront facial abrasions and slight concussion. Both are progressing favourably, as is Leslie Stevens, who sustained slight concussion and cuts about the scalp through being knocked down bv a car. Henry Rillston was admitted suffering from; a fractured leg and a cut across the forehead, hut his condition is not serious. Ho is said to have been riding £t motor cycle wlvidi coltided with a ear. SUSPENSION OF LICENSE REVOKED. WELLINGTON, May 19. The 10 years’ suspension of his driving license imposed on John Towers on” November 18, 1925, as a result of bis conviction on a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a, motor car, was the subject of an application under .section. 322 of the Justices' of the Peace Act, 1927, before Mr. Page, S.M., to-day. In supporting the application, counsel said that Towers was fined £lO in July, 1924, for being intoxicated while in charge of a car and his license was not suspended, but when he appeared before Mr. Page in. November, 1925, on a similar charge he was fined £3O and hi® license suspended for 10 years. Witnesses’ expenses and counsel’s, fee with the fine made the total £45. In addition Towers had to pay ,£2l for hospital charges and repairs to bicycle as the result of an accident in, connection with the. second _ charge. He was dismissed from the Civil Service, in which he was receiving the maximum salary, and was out of work for 10 months/ He had since obtained a responsible position with _ a motor firm, and the suspension of his driver’s license was handicapping him, in His work.

The application was for a review of the period of suspension. In view of tiie circumstances outlined, Towers had taken out a prohibition order in November, 1925, and had renewed it each year since mat time. The police said there was no objection to the period of'suspension being reviewed. The magistrate said Jie thought Towers had learnt his lesson, and he considered that lie had had adequate suspension. Towers would now be free to apply for a license at any time. DIED OF INJURIES. A SIIJBUETON, May 19. Alexander McMillan, aged 89,, of Tinwald, died in the hospital last night from internal injuries resulting through a horse rolling on him on Friday, May 11. He left a widow and four children. INJURED IN RAILWAY ACCIDENT. GISBORNE, May 19. Mrs T. L. Barker, of Motuhora, who was injured in the railway accident, has been sent to hospital to-day. BODY FOUND I.N HARBOUR. WELLINGTON, May 20. The body of an unknown man was pulled out of the harbour this afternoon at. 1 o’clock. The man is believed to have fallen off a wharf last night. A FATAL ACCIDENT. CHRISTCHURCH, May 21. Knocked from his bicycle by a motor car at the intersection of Clarence Road and Leamington Street yesterday, OsmyiL Benjamin Si lip, aged 14, was admitted to hospital in an unconscious condition, with injuries to head, face and legs. He was in a critical condition all day and died later. MOTOR CYCLISTS INJURED. WELLINGTON, May 21. C. H. Belcher and J. F. Redmond, two clerks, who were riding on motor cycles, collided with a car last night near Silverstream in the Hutt Valley. Belcher had his right leg ‘broken and Redmond his right arm fractured. Both machines were badly damaged.