ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
(I’er Press Association.)
Yesterday afternoon Vai Armstrong, aged 16, youngest son of Mr. H. T. Armstrong. M.P., of Christchurch, was accidentally strangled. It was stated that he was mending a bicycle hanging in the washhouse at his parents’ residence, when he slipped off a box on which he was standing. His head caught on a rope and he died before his plight was discovered
At an inquest held at Invercargill yesterday afternoon on the body of a man found washed ashore at Toetoe Bay, near Fort Rose, on Sunday, deceased was identified as Thomas Meigham, a greaser on the steamship lonic. He was a native of England and was last seen alive at Bluff on July 15. Injuries sustained late on Monday evening through the tyre of a motor cycle on which he was pillion riding bursting, proved fatal yesterday morning to Alexander Edmond Forbes, aged 20, of Christchurch. Forbes was admitted to hospital early yesterday morning. It appears that Forbes was riding behind W. H. Fielding, who was driving a motor cycle, when a motor lorry approached. Fielding swerved to avoid a collision, but the tyre burst and Forbes was thrown under the lorry, which partly passed over him.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 31 August 1927, Page 4
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203ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 31 August 1927, Page 4
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