ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 77, 13 March 1933, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Mrs. Edgar Clements, one of the oldest settlers in Matapouri, North Auckland, was killed on Saturday, which was her sixty-second birthday. She and her husband had been out riding, and she was about to dismount in the yard at their home when a gale of wind blew a kerosene tin below the horse, which plunged. Mrs. Clements was thrown off and received a fracture at the base of the skull. Aubrey Dennis Michael Shaw, single, aged 25, was taken to hospital on Saturday night with head and spinal injuries sustained in a fall down the •teps at a boarding house in Dunedin. While the thatching of an oat stack Was being carried out nt Underwood, Invercargill, on Saturday, Mr Morgan O’Brien, aged 79, fell off the stack and war killed instantly. Deceased was Hot engaged in the work of thatching, and apparently climbed on to the stack •nnotieed. Mr Thomas Aitken, single, died in the Southland Hospital on Sunday as a result of injuries received when the motor-cycle he was riding collided with a stationary car on Saturday night in Elies road. Knocked down by a motor-car while aycling in Ferry road, Christchurch, at 8.20 on Saturday evening, Mr Frank Leslie Wilmer Moran, vaudeville artist, suffered injuries to his head from which be died at the hospital early yesterday morning. The driver of the car was Mr Neil Williamson.