ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 162, 28 June 1930, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

TWO MEN DROWNED. END TO FISHING TRIP. (Per Press ssociatlon.) Nelson, June 28. Yesterday morning the lighthouse at French Pass continued to function until late in tho morning, and the mail contractor did not arrive at the French Pass Post Office for his mail. The postmaster, Mr. Webber, investigated the unusual happenings, and found that both the lighthousekeeper Reginald Sherwood, and the mail contractor, Clifford Kassey, were missing. The men went out in a dinghy on Thursday night to lift a fishing net and had not returned. The body of the lighthouse-keeper was found yesterday afternoon on the D’Urville Island side of the-Pass, and the dinghy was found near Clay Point. Kassey’s body has not been recovered. Kassey is a returned soldier, married, with four children, and Sherwood was married with two children. Both men were aged about 37.

Daphne Olivo Thomson, aged 14 months, died in hospital this morning from severe head injuries, caused in a fall from a cliff near her parents’ home at Shag Point, Dunedin, yesterday. Pai' of the fence protecting tfie cliff had been carried away in a landslip, and the child strayed there.

The circumstances arising out of the death of James Brown, aged 23 years, of Auckland, who was fatally injured on June 18 when a car went over a bank, were inquired into by the acting coroner and a jury of four The accident occurred on a dangerous point on the Puha-Whatatutu road, known the Otara bend. 26 miles* from Gisborne. After hearing evidence a verdict of accidental death was returned, no blame being attachable to the driver of the car. Trevor Charles Long. Tn a rider the jury recommended that the local authority responsible for the road should see that it was properly banked and graded, with a suitable post and rail fence erected on the lower side

William Henry Irwin, married, a 'ipilway engine driver, was struck by the Lyttelton train near Linwood station', at 6.40 o’clock last evening and died soon afterwards Irwin was on his way to work and was crossing the line at a point where there was no thoroughfare across the tracks when he was struck by the locomotive and thrown aside. He was picked up between the two sets of rails still living but he died while being conveyed to hospital. A wharf worker, George McMahon, attempting to board the steamer Norfolk by means of a rope ladder from the freezing works’ punt at Pioton Wharf fell from a bulwark to the punt. He was later found semiconscious and ordered to hospital with shock, bruised chest, and abrasions on the sido and leg. McMahon is a resident of Picton, single, and aged 40.

No cause has been disclosed of the death of Albert William Furze, who lived at 156 Waimairi road, Riccarton, and who died unexpectedly in the Christchurch Hospital on Wednesday. A medical examination by two doctors before his death disclosed nothing likely to cause death, and a post mortem examination threw no light on the subject. Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., coroner, opened an inquest yesterday an'd heard evidence, but adjourned the inquest sine die in order that further inquiries might be made. “The case is a strange one,” he said. The brother of the deceased gave evidence that Furze was aged 41 and married. He had apparently been upset by some medicine prescribed for him.