ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 213, 8 December 1925, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

CAR FALLS INTO IJIVER. AUCKLAND WOMAN DROWNED, An accident occurred yesterday on the Waikaremoana road resulting in the death of an elderly woman named Mrs. Gibb, of Papatoetoe, Auckland, and minor injuries and shock to three others. It appears that Mr. W. G. Donaldson. chief operator at Tuai powerhouse, Waikaremoana. was driving home in his car with his wife and child and Mrs. Gibb, and when nearing Tahiko station the car came into collision with a telegraph pole, capsized and rolled down a bank and fell into the Waikaretahike river, in which there was six feet of water. Mrs. Gibb was drowned, and the others sustained minor injuries. Medical assistance was soon forthcoming and the injured were removed to the County Hospital at Wairoa, and the body of Mrs. Gibb was taken to the morgue to await an inquest. Tho road is reported to be in good order at the scene of the accident and the cause of the mishap has not been explained.

(Per Press Association). John Austin, aged 28. labourer, single, was found drowned in a waterhole near Silverdale. Auckland, yesterday. He ha<] been missing since Sunday afternoon. James Kelly, aged 35. fireman on the lonic, died on tho ship at Auckland last night as a sequel to a brawl. 'lt is stated that a number of firemen were fighting on the deck shortly after six o'clock, when the fourth officer in'torvened. The men then went below. Shortly afterwards Kelly collapsed and was lifted into his bunk. As he appeared to he badly injured the police were sent for. and just as they arrived he died. The police arrested a trimmer named Phillip Sutherland. (29), un a. charge of having assaulted Kelly. It is thought possible Kelly may have died from heart failure. He had only one small cut on the head, although he was bleeding freely' from the nose. Later: Philip Michael Sutherland was charged in the police court with assault on James Kelly, and was remanded to December 10. No statement was made by the police, but it transpires that tho cause of Kelly’s death was hemorrhage of the brain.

Shirley Josephs, of Gisborne, aged 13 months, was fatally scalded by the upsetting of a basin of water which had been placed on a chair near where the child was playing. At the inquest on Shirley Joseph, aged 13 months, who died at Gisborne as the result of scalds at 7 a.m. yesterday, it was stated that the child caught hold of a basin of boiling water and accidentally poured it over herself. A verdict of accidental death was returned. While working a steam drag this morning at Woolston Canterbury, George Arbuckle, married, was severely injured in the head, chest, and loot-, and was taken to hospital. Cecil IL Allen, a well known jeweller, of Palmerston North, was found dead in a bathroom attached to his workshop this morning. He was a married man with one child. Deceased had suffered from ill health lately. The body of Joseph Golding, a native of Ireland, a swagger, was found in the river bed of the Manawatu at Ngawapurua by two anglers. Evidently the body had lieen in the water for some time. Deceased was identified as a man who said he crossed the river on November 9. when he went to Oete station. It is assumed ho met his death in recrossing the river later in tho day. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned.