ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 238, 26 September 1930, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

iPer Press Association.) Fatal injuries were received by an elderly woman, Mrs. Mary Laing, of 16 Picton street Ponsonby, as a result of being knocked down by a taxi in Khyber Pass, about 10.45 last night.

The inquest was held yesterday in Gisborne into the circumstances surrounding the death of the sixteen-year-old boy, Joseph Arthur Parker, which occurred at a private hospital on September 17. when the patient was under an anaesthetic. After medical evidence had been heard, the acting coroner. Mr. A. G. Beere, J.P.. and a jury of four-returned a verdict that death was due to asphyxia while under an anaesthetic, and that all reasonable care and all usual precautions appeared to have been taken in connection with the operation.

At the Inquest this morning at Greymouth upon Samuel Glasson. wno was killed in the Blackball mine bins on Tuesday through being rushed between railway strucks and a prop supporting the bins, a verdict of death from shock caused by injuries was returned. The Coroner, Mr R. W. Melrum, S.M., added: “The evidence shows that the closeness of the props to the lines is a source of danger to those stopping trucks at the bins, and that the brake on the waggon which caused the accident was defective."

A motor ear accident occurred in the Waimana Gorge, near Whakatane whereby Alfred Robert Fallows, a traveller for the Goodyear Tyro Co., with headquarters at Hamilton, lost his life. Mr Kirk, settler, of Wai-

mana, when riding through the gorge, noticed the marks of a car leading over a bank on Douglas Hill. Ou investigating he saw a car submerged in the waimana river, 40 f»et below, and reported to the police at Taneatua. The car was recovered from the rivdr

this morning and the body of the .- victim of the accident recovered later, about threequarters of a mile lower down the river.