ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 73, 10 March 1930, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[Per Press Association.)

An elderly man, Robert Lampleigh, died suddenly at Christchurch on the Kaiapoi Working Men’s Qiub bowling green on Saturday afternoon. He had been playing ail afternoon, and had just finished a game when he fell down and expired on the green.

While competing in a dirt track motor cycle race at the Kilbirnie (Wellington) Stadium on Saturday night, J. Hollis (Australia) fell cud a cycle ridden by <R. Blake, also of Australia, appeared to strike him, and he was taken to the hospital with a severe lacerated wound on the left arm, concussion and shock.

Caught by a gust of wind while standing on a small ledge of the Temperance and General Assurance Company's new premises at tbe corner of Wellesley and Eliott streets, Auckland, Ernest Frank Rutherford, a carpenter, who resided at 10 Queen’s Parade, Devonport, met a sudden death by falling 120 feet into the street He was married and had three years' war service.

Leaving the road at a sharp bend near Whatututu, a motor car, driven by Petei Te Rito, dived 45 feet down an embankment and became completely wrecked. Te Rito and another Maori, Rangi Ruru, were severely injured; another native escaped with minor abrasions.

The wife of Joseph Gallagher, a seafaring man, of Auckland, was found dead by her son yesterday. At the inquest the coroner gave a verdict of suicide by poisoning. A daughter stated that her mother had been depressed and melancholy for some time past.

A motor-ear with six occupants, driven by 11. Jackson from Te kuiti, went over a bank at Kinglsland at 10 p m. on Sunday, crashed through a fence and stopped against the front of a house in which Mrs L. Webb was asleep. The front of the car crumpled up A young woman in the car iu stained severe injuries. The others escaped lightly.