ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 208, 17 August 1927, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) A message received in Auckland from Kaitana states that a serious accident betel Mr it. McDougall. bf Waihopo. the northern representative of producers on the Kauri Gutn Control Board, when oh his wav to Waiharara on horseback on Sundav to attened a meeting. He had to pass a wrecked vehicle on the roadside. and his hofse shied. Mr MtDougall was thrown heavily, striking his head and back, and lav unconscious fot four hours He ‘wis found by Mr Leyland, to whose house he was conveyed. It was thought inadvisable to take him ro hospital by road, and a launch is being procured to convey the injured man from Waiharara to the Manconui Hospital. It is feared Mr McDougall susained a serious ifijufr to the spine An unusual accident befel Mrs W. C. Robibsofi. wife of a picture theatre lessee. Pahiatua. while engaged in fitting a fancy dress in the making for a friend. A darning needle snapped and was driven into both knees, Mrs Robinson being in thq act oi walking towards a table at the time. the eye pottion of the * \ needle about II inches long, became ‘‘ embedded in the right knee. The remaining portion was extracted from the left knee. An X-rav reveals the needle buried about an inch deep alongside the bone, and an operation • will be necessary to remove it A distressing fatality occurred last night at Nuhaka during the progress of u dance when John Nepia. a halfbrother of George Nepia, the .til Black, fell through the ceiling of the L.D.B. Hall and sustained terrible in. juries, to which he succumbed a few minutes later. The deceased was a fine stamp of vouth and although onlv 16 vears of age was powerfully built, weighing 14 stone. ' Signaller H. T. Fluskey, aged 28, a single man, died from heart failure aboard H.M.S. Diomede at Pago Pago on July 20th. He took part in swimming sports in the morning, and appeared in good health, but expired suddenly in the afternoon. He was buried at Pago Pago. Three Island Bay fishermen, Messrs Andrew Tait, George Baxter, and Jack Huntes’, had to swim for their lives when their launch Noma struck a submerged rock or some other obstacle near the entrance to Wellington I arbour ’.hortly before 7 o’clock Inst night- The launch foundered in n lew minute-, and the mi n. stripped, v.uh only lifebelts on swnm in the chilly waters until t„o of their number clambered on to Barrett's Reef and the third reached the passenger steamer Araliura. which had been attracted by flareliglits from the launch when sSe was s-inlrinv,