ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 3 October 1927, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

CHILD DROWNED IN VAT OF LIQUID TAN. <Per Press Association). A three-year-old boy, George Booth Beddingfield, was found drowned on Sunday in a vat of liquid tan in the soap factory of Warnock Bros., Ltd., Grey Lynn, Auckland. George and his brother, Roy, aged five, left their parents’ house in Sumner street, Pon sonby, at 10 a.m. and when they failed to return at dinner the parents made a search. It appears that the boys climbed under a broken door at the back of the soap factory. George’s body was recovered by the factory foreman from a large vat filled with liquid tan to a depth of about 4} feet He applied artificial respiration but without success. FOOTBALLER INJURED. In the League match at Auckland, Newton versus Richmond, G. Norman captain of the Newton team, sustained concussion of the brain and a Broken jaw. DEATH OF LITTLE BOY. CAUGHT BY~FALLING TREE. A most distressing accident resulting in the death of Roy Jesse Hodgkinson, aged 7 years, occurred on Saturday afternoon at Riverhead road, near Napier. It appears that a young man named Harrison was cutting a tent pole from a tree which had been blown down beside the lagoon. The tree had fallen at right angles to its stump and was supported by one of its branches. The unfortunate lad and his two younger brothers were standing behind Harrison and as the supporting branch was chopped away the tree dropped about three feet and rolled over, knocking over the deceased and pinning his head undernearth. Desperate efforts were made by Harrison and the two other boys release him, which they were unable to do without assistance. Dr. T C. Moore was summoned and the boy was later removed to the Napier Hospital, where he was operated upon at 5.30 o’clock. His case was hopeless from the start and he succumbed about two hours later. The funeral will take place to-mor-row afternoon at the Parke Island cemetery. An inquest was held this afternoon. CAPSIZE OF A CAR. While proceeding along the mad leading from the Parke Island home early on Saturday evening, a car. driven by Jack O’Donnald, one of the assistants at the Home, and containing Mis Hay-Chapman, tne manager’s wife, and one of the inmates named Cannahan. left the road and capsized over a bank, all the occu pants being thrown out. O’Donnald and Mrs Hay-Chapman suffered slight injuries, while Cannahan. who sustained a broken shoulder besids being badly shaken, had to be removed to the Napier Hospital, where he is Progressing as well as can be expected. BOY CYCLIST KNOCKED DOWN. On Saturday evening, at the junction of Karamu road and Hcretaunga street, Hastings a lad of twelve years, riding a bicycle, was knocked down by a motor car driven by a lady. Fortunately, the boy was not hurt. The pressure of traffic at any time in Heretaunga street, but especially at lunch hour and at 5 p.m. ( as well as on Saturday nights, requires constant care on the part of cyclists and of drivers of motor vehicles, but cyclists seem to be particularly heedless of danger. Not long before the incident here recorded a little miss of about 13 years was seen pedalling her way along Heretaunga street with her hands behind her back, whilst a pebble under her path might have precipitated her under the wheels of some hurrying car. CYCLE AND CAR COLLIDE. A collision on Saturday evening at Dannevirke between a motor cycle ridden by Albert Charles Smith Phillips, a Dannevirke Power Board linesman, and a motor car driven by Hooper Smith, a farmer of Mangatoro, resulted in Phillips being adadmitted to hospital with a broken right thigh* a broken left arm and severe facial and body abrasions.