ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2171, 2 September 1920, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

On Sunday. Air'Norman Fletcher, of Cambridge, together with his 14-year-ohf sister, Hilda, went on a rabbit-shoutin';' expedition, and on their return the former placed a pea ride on the kitchen table. At about (1.15 p.m., with the intention of cleanup the weapon, he lifted it from the (able. A cartridge must have been left in the weapon, for the next instant an explosion was heard and a cry from Miss Fletcher: “You’ve shot me, Norman.” First aid was rendered, and the {?irl was removed to the hospital in a. precarious condition.

Tli(.i body or I ho youth Swemlson, who was drowned oil! a oadlo punt at Kaupo, Northern Mairoa, was recovered on Monday. DROWNED EKOM A DINOHV. _— 9 Blenheim, Sept. 1. The polieo received flows this morning from Wairan bar that a boy, 13 years of age, named Victor Homes, was drowned from a dinghy. His body has not boon recovered. DROWNED IN A DAM. Hawera, Sept. & A boy, 131 years of age, named Stanley Wilfred Murphy, wan drowned in a dam near Mohoia on Monday. The boy had always been delicate and subject to tils. His mother missed him during the day, and a search was instituted. The water in the dam, which is'about two chains from the house, was run off, and the body was discovered in about three feet of water. At the inquest a verdict was returned of accidentallv drowned.