ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 January 1929, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

CHILD DROWNED. (By IVlegrapn —Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 15. Nelson Conibear, aged seven years 10 months, was paddling in the Avon at Pleasant Ploint, S.outh Brighton, when he stepped into a hole and was drowned. A BODY RECOVERED. NAPIER-, Jan. 15. The body of Alfred Carney, aged nine eyars, who was drowned at the wharf On January 4, was recovered to-day at the breakwater. KNIFE WOUND ON BODY. DUNEDIN, Jan. 15. N. Childs, a taxi driver, aged 21, was admitted to hospital at 10.15 on Monday evening, suffering from a knife wound in the body. , . It appears that Childs had driven some members of a ship’s crew to the hospital to visit a patient in the institution, but admission was refused as it was after visiting hours. He drove the party away and later a friend askec him to drive to the Maimoa’s beTth at the Victoria wharf. . After Childs had been on the Maimoa and the Bloemfontein the watchman on the latter vessel ordered him to leave. He was hurried down the gangway by the watchman and subsequently stated that lie had been stabbed, but was unable to say who' was responsible His condition is regarded as serious. MAORI GIRL DROWNED.

GISBORNE, Jan. 16. Eva Alorete, aged 16, whilst bathing with other Maori girls in the Waiapu River at Waipuna. got into a deep pool and was drowned. None of the girls could swim. The decased recently returned from school at Napier. DIED FRIOM INJURIES. GISBORNE, Jan. 16. W. L. W. Plowman was injured whilst bathing on Sunday, having struck a submerged object when diving from a pier lias died at the hospital. The deceased came from Auckland.