WEEK END FATALITIES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 February 1931, Page 8

WEEK END FATALITIES.

KNOCKED DOWN BY CAE. Knocked down at Waikanae by a car which did not stop, William Pudor died from his injuries Fast evening. Mr Pudor, who was a railway ganger about to retire from the service, was crossing the road to the post office at Waikanae about 8.30 p.m., when he was struck by the car, which was travelling towards Wellington. He died a few minutes later. From the particulars the police have, they expect to be able to trace the motor-car involved in the accident. BOY FALLS FROM BOAT. Within sight of two other boys with him. Chris Stephens, aged 15, of Panmure, was drowned near Panmure wharf in the Tamaki River shortly before two o’clock yesterday. Attempts at rescue failed. Together with Cliff Green and Jack Beer, of Ellerslie, Stephens was playing in a dinghy near the shore. As they had no oars, they were pushing the dinghy along with sticks in about a foot of water. Beer left the boat to have a swim, and Stephens pushed out toward the centre of the stream, but, finding he was going too far, he tried to push back to the shore. The boy was unable to find the bottom with the stick, and over-balanced, falling into fairly deep water. Stephens’s companion in the boat, Green, threw him a rope, but Stephens failed to catch it, and Beer, who was in the water near, went ashore to get a stick which he held out to Stephens. Unfortunately Stephens pulled the stick out of Beer’s hand, and he sank immediately. Several parties dragged the river for the remainder of the afternoon, but the body was not found. DROWNED THROUGH STEPPING OFF LEDGE. Getting into difficulty while fishing on the shore at Port Waikato, yesterday, Thomas Gordon Hickey, an orphan, aged 21, was drowned. Hickey was one of a party fishing outside the heads with a net, and he and William Ingram, aged 17, neither of whom could swim, stepped off a ledge into deep water. The only member of the party who could swim, Miss Donaldson, aged 17, of Auckland, secured the youth Ingram, but Hickey drowned before she could get to him. The body was recov-' ered later. VAN CRASHES INTO POST. YOUTH FATALLY INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WIIANG AEEI, This Day. A motor van owned by Manson’s, caterers, of Whangarei, when returning from the Northern Wairoa Show, crashed into a telegraph pole at Maunu Road, three miles from Whangarei, at four o’clock yesterday morning. The driver, James Hughes, aged 17 years, was imprisoned in the wreckage, which had to lie sawn away in order to release him. He. was so extensively injured that he died in hospital shortly after admission. Another youth, Harold Gregory Manson, the only other occupant of the van, was thrown clear and escaped unscathed.