ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 193, 20 July 1925, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association). Madeline Monica Doyle, aged 16 years, collapsed and died, alter having been placed under gas in a dental »u. gery at Rangiora, Canterbury, yesterday morning. She was to ail appear antes quite strong and well, and caiue out of the gas normally, but ulmuai immediately afterwards she collapsed and died. Doctors used artificial respiiution for an hour without avail. Aliss Doyle underwent an operation at the Lefisham Hospital, Christchurch, two months ago, but made a good recovery. I nilip Samuels, age 19 years, a. ie*ident of Nihoniho, was drowned on Llmrsday in the Ohura river (near launiarunui). Deceased who was pulling the punt across, when quite close to the bank fell into the finer and disappeared. The body was found lato« th© same afternoon. 4 Cleveland Cedric Barber, aged 12, of Rangiora, Canterbury, died yesterday after Im?mg run over by a spring drav while helping his father to shift some hay. The body of an elderly man. George Courtenay, a platelayer, employed bv the 1 üblic Works Department, was found in a drain in the Wairoa borough yesterday Deceased had been missing for a week. The body had evidently been in the water for several days. Thomas Sewell, aged 85, lost his hie as the result of an accident on iuihumingi hill yesterday afternoon states a Masterton message. Accompamed by a man named Allbright, jewell left Blairlogie in a gig. Near Kahumingi the saddle strap of the harness broke and the shafts fell to the ground. Sewell being thrown out on his head. He was removed to hospital when he died this morning The death occurred at the hospital last night of Cecil Daniel Shepherd, laborer, 33, who fell from Winston’s gettv, Customs street West, Auckland, into th© water yesterday morning. Deceased, who was partially blinded, was employed ns a labourer at the Blind Institute, Parnell. He had been delivering ami was standing at the end of tae jetty when he tripped and fell 12 feet • n to tlie cargo of telegraph poles on the. deck of the scow Hero, and rolled into three feet of water.