ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
William Crawford, married, with two children, while working a tractor on Wantwood ( Station, near Mandeville, Southland, yesterday, was crushed to death. Tho tractor got into a boggy piece of ground, and the driver put on extra power, but the machine up-ended and fell back on the discs pt the rear, X,
ciushing Crawford, who was dead when found. Assistance had to i)e obtained to extricate him.
Yesterday Joseph Dunn, of Piriaka, near Taumarunui. wag admitted to the hospital suffering from a fractured spine close to the neck. From particulars gathered Dunn was knocked down by a cow. although it is vague as to how the actual break occurred. Dunn was immediately operated upon, but at present he is paralysed. Hopes are entertained that he, in time, will regain the use of his limbs.
While playing in Terrace-end Park, Palmerston North, yesterday afternoon, Jchn Kenneth Bannerman, aged seven, fell from a chute, sustaining injuries to the head. He was taken to hospital, where he died at midnight.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 234, 10 September 1924, Page 4
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