ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 September 1927, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

(Per Press Association). Soon after midday yesterday G. A C. Pickford, shipwright, of Lyttelton, was struck by a shunting engine while crossing a railway line at the dock head at Lyttelton. He suffered injuries to the right hip and a compound fracture of the left arm at the elbow.

Two motor cars collided at Prebbleton, ten miles from Christchurch, last evening. The occupants of one car—F. N. Robson, aged 53, married, and John W. Hartnell, 23, single—were injured. Hartnell received injuries to the head and left shoulder and suffered concussion. His condition is reported to be fairly serious. Robson has a fractured right arm, head injuries and concussion and suffered severely from shockHis condition is very serious. Robson was driving his own car, with Hartnell as a passenger. How the accident happened, who drove the other car or how the occupants fared cannot be ascertained.

The body which was found in the Auckland harbour <m Sunday has been identified as that of Thomas Whelan, aged about 65 years. He was lately an inmate of the City Mission doss house.

Mrs Menzies, residing in Campbell road, Onehunga. was found bv her husband at 3.30 o’clock this morning in the kitchen dead, with a gas tube m her mouth. The deceased lady was 60 years of age. and leaves a grown-up family.