ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 126, 4 May 1925, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

The death occurred in the Cook Hospital, Gisborne, yesterday morning, of ’John Frederick Knight, fifteen years of age, as a result of injuries through being gored by a bull on his parents’ farm at Mukauri on April 27. A man named Walter Craig Walker, aged 57, a well known Dunedin teacher of shorthand, was found dead in tho garden of his residence on Saturday with his throat cut. At the inquest a verdict was returned of suicide while depressed through illhealth. Ernest Rolan Bindling, aged 35, brought from Waikune prison camp on April 29th requiring urgent medical attention, died at Auckland on Saturday night. An inquest opened tbif morning was adjourned for a postmortem. George Harrison, aged 61, called at n boardinghouse at Auckland on Sunday morning and asked for food. He was given something to eat, but left the meal unfinished and lay down on tho doorstep. He was covered as a protection against the cold. Later he was found dead. A bottle of methylated spirits yas in his pocket. The body was removed to the morgue for an inquest. A motor accident occurred near Wajpatu, on the Hastings-Napier road, on Saturday night, about 11.30, which nearly resulted in a fatality. Mr Carl Ijce and Mr J. Le Quesne were driving into Napier when, at the turn-off at the bend of the road, past Mr P. H. Tomoaua’s house, they met a car driven by a Mr McKenzie, of the Clive district, and the cars came into collision. Mr McKenzie’s car, which was a Buick, struck Mr Lee’s Saxon on the side of the bonnet, turning it round and the force of the impact threw Mr. Leo back on to the hood of the ca«x which was open. Mr Le Quesne was thrown out on to the road, where he was picked up suffering from concussion. and he was conveyed to his residence, Caroline road. The Sax/»n car was so badl- damaged that it had to be abandoned on the side of the road, where it was lying this morning. Mr. Li’e escaped with a shaking and Mr Le Quesne. though confined to his lx?d, was reported to be on the mend | this forenoon. I On Thursday night last a motor oar | driven by Paul Hapi, o f Bridge Pa, and also occupied by three other Maoris, was proceeding to Te Hauke taking the party tor a day’s shooting on the lake. Just before coming to the brick kilns they met another car on the road, going, it is said, at a considerable .sjxjed, and, in avoiding a collision, their car skidded in some loose shingle and ran down a steep incline, coming into a head-on collision with a telegraph pole. The occupants were all thrown out. Paul Hapi going through th* windscreen and providentially escaping with a bruised lip. One of the other occupants was hurled through the door, wrenching it off its hinges, and sustain, ing a nasty cut under the eye. The rest escaped with a severe shaking. The i car wa s badly smashed. A collision between a motor <;ar and I a motor cyclo and sidecar, fortunately I unattended by serious results, occurred j at the corner of Hastings and Emerson streets. Napder, on Sunday afternoon. Tho motor cycle, which was ridden by Mr. C. Ixiuisson, with a woman and . two children in tho sidecar, came from ' the direction of tho Post Office, passed a tramcar and turned into Emerson street and collided with a car driven by Mr. F. A. Timmins. Both were travelling slowly at th© time and there was no serious damage or injury.