ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 137, 24 May 1928, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

(Per Press Association.] While working in Shag Point coal mine yesterday, William James Robinson was buried under a fall of earth and killed. Robinson, who is a single man, 36 years of age, was erecting some staging in company with a workmate, when six tons of earth fell from above. The workmate jumped clear, receiving only a cut on the head, but Robinson was completely buried. The body was recovered after three lours.

John Thomson, residing at Ravensbourne, Dunedin, died suddenly at his work at McLeod’s soup works yesterday morning. Deceased, who was a married man, 55 years of age, had been receiving treatment for heart trouble for some time.

John Barrett, while riding a bicyclo in Barbadoes street, Christchurch, yesterday, collided with a motor lorry. He had his son, aged three years, on the handle bar. Both were taken to the hospital suffering from abrasions and shock. Barrett was unconscious, but regained consciousness during the evening, and both are progressing favourably.

John Palliser, of the auctioneering firm of Palliser and Co., was found in a state of collapse, after taking poison, in his mart at Wanganui, this morning. He was hurried to the hospital, where he died shortly after admission.

A serious collision between a motor cycle and a horse-drawn waggon took place at Ruawai last night resulting in the death at Te Kopuru hospital of the rider of the motor cycle, Robert Baff, Public Works foreman. Baff, accompanied by Harry Wallace in the side car, was proceeding along the road when the collision took place, Baff sustaining a compound fracture of the leg and other terrible injuries. He was conveyed to hospital, where he succumbed early this morning. Wallace escaped with a few bruises while L. Ambury, the driver of the waggon, was unhurt.

Frank Booth, 5 years of age, the son of Arthur Booth, settler, of Kaitawa, was admitted to the public hospital nt Pnhiatua in an unconscious condition last night as a result of a fall from a pony at his father’s farm, when riding the animal with his sister. The boy was very badly bruised, but recovered consciousness later. The girl was also stunned.