ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
(Per Fres* Association.) Serious injuries were sustained by a young man, W. Fountain, when driving a wool lorry near Tangihau station, Poverty Bay. The lorry left the road, rolling down the steep hillside and somersaulting several times. Fountain’s injuries include broken ribs and an injured back. George Tainui, a Maori, was drowned in the AhUra river, Hokitika, last evening while engaged in dragging a net for flounders. The body was recovered this morning. He was a single man aged 40 years. The body of William Shearer, aged 81, of Karori, who had been missing since noon on Saturday, was found to-day in the bush at the back of the cemetery. Death apparently was due to exhaustion. The two-year-old son of K. J. Biddick ,of Tuakua, Auckland, died in hospital from scalding caused by falling into a bath of boiling water before his mother had time to add cold water.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 300, 4 December 1929, Page 7
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