ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 70, 6 March 1930, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

(Per Press Association.) J. Bladder, single, an inspector of permanent ways for the Railway Department, was travelling from Taumarunui to Te Kuiti yesterday on a motor jigger when he met a ballast train between Okahukura and Tanngamotu. Bladder was killed almost instantaneously. Deceased resides at Te Kuiti. He has relatives in Australia.

A middle-aged man, John Munson, who was knocked down by a motor car in Featherston street. Welling' ton, on Tuesday, died yesterday.

An aged Maori woman, Pipitane Wiki Tara, missing from her home at Whaka /Rotorua) on Sunday, is suspected of having fallen into a hot hole adjacent to the bridge over tho Puarenga stream. A search was continued all yesterday without results.

Advice was received by tho sergeant of police at Bluff yesterday of the loss of the fishing boat Mararoa, owned by the Bluff Fish and Oyster Company, while engaged in fishing off Smoky Point at 8 o’clock yesterday morning. It is feared' that two men on board, Thomas Clark and John West, have been drowned, as it is too rough in the straight for any small vessel to make a search. Captain Henry Cooper, who has been practising as a veterinary surgeon, was admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital last evening and died shortly afterwards. It is understood that tho police called at his residence to take him to the station and just as the vehicle arrived ho swallowed the contents of a small bottle which had been concealed in his pocket. Lindsay Allen, aged 35. foreman and telegraph linesman, of Hawera. was the victim of a fatal fall at Kiiponga yesterday. Ho leaves a wife and three children. Ito wa 1 - astride the cross-arm at, (he top of a telegraph pole adjusting his satoiy belt, when , as a result, apparently, of a shock from the electric power line, he toll into the telegraph wires Another linesman who mounted a ladder to assist grasped the belt, which parted . and Allen fell to the ground, expiring immediately with a broken neck. Esmonds Dillon O’Neill, a patient of tho Wairau (Marlborough) hospital. who recently suffered cerebral haemorrhage, was found this morning in a bath at the hospital in n state of collapse and died almost immediately after being found. The medical superintendent, who examined tho deceased and found no water in his lungs, pronounced death I as due to a further hemorrhage.