ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17702, 31 January 1918, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SUDDEN DEATH. [Per Press Association.]

NEW PLYMOUTH, January 30Mr Hal Goodacro, proprietor of the Egmont Boot Factory, died very suddenly at his factory this morning. His health lately had been indifferent. Death evidently was tho result of heart failure. ACCIDENTS AT IvAIKOURA. MiSs Treloar, governess at Mrs ActonAdams’s Tho Reserve, Clarence Runs Homestead, was mounting a horse on Sunday when she was thrown, the fall resulting in a fracture of the left arm near the wrist. Surgical aid was obtained at Kaikoura. Robert Strahl, while temporarily engaged in wharf work at Kaikoura, was struck by a truck and thrown on to the lever actuating the points of tho tram rails. Tho muscles of his loft buttock were crushed, but more serious trouble was occasioned by the points lever injuring his groin. Strahl was removed to the Cottage Hospital. James P. Hodgman was the victim of a rather serious accident on board tho steamer Wakatu. Ho was assisting to stow wool in tho hold when a sling was unexpectedly lowered and the bales struck Hodgman, throwing him violently on to the iron ballast on the ship’s floor. His left- knee-cap was’ fractured, tho muscles of his right arm hurt and his head slightly cut. He was attended to at the Cottage Hospital.