ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 January 1929, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

AYATERSIDER SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 25. John aged 46, a married man, died in hospital tin’s morning from injuries sustained while working on the steamer UJimaroa. Last evening Vernon and a companion worker, named Laurits Hansen, were struck by a sling of heavy timber. A r ernon had an arm and a leg broken, but Hansen’s injuries were not serious.

NAPIER BOYS MISSING. NAPIER, Jan. 25. Two boys, Hugh Douglas, aged 15, and Gordon MacFarlane, aged 16, both of Napier, left the Westsho're jetty in a sailing boat yesterday afternoon for a. cruise round the inner harbour, and have not since been seen. Search parties out last night found the boat upturned on the other side of the harbour about midnight. The oars and a portion of the boat were found this morning by the police searchers, but no sign of the missing hoys has been observed. GIG AND CAR COLLIDE. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 25. As the result of a head-on collision with a motor car two brothers, Ernest and 33. Humnhries, were thrown out of a gig on 'the Riccarton Road, Ernest receiving a fractured leg and liis brother head injuries. CONCERT PARTY’S SHOCK. OPOTIKI, Jan. 25. A motor accident occurred on the Meremere Hill, 17 miles from Opotiki, early this morning, when 15 members of the “Napier .Frivolity Minstrels” were proceeding to Gisborne in a big bus, when the machine left the road and nose-dived, turning over and landing on its wheels 115 feet below. Ralph Hawkins (the driver) and Reginald Abbott, both of Napier, were seriously injured. Three others were slightly injured, and were admitted to hospital very lucky to have escaped so lightly.