ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10114, 23 October 1917, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A motor accident occurred at "\Vangan'ui East yesterdav morning by which a boy named Eades met with a serious accident. From meagre details winch could be gathered it appears that the lad was assisting to deliver milk, ami had stepped out from behind a milk car when an approaching motor ear collided with him and knocked him down. I The sufferer was conveyed to the hos'pital. Avliero he was found to be >uttering from concussion of the brain and severe scalp wounds. It is understood that Eades' parents are residents ot Wanganui East.—Herald. Particulars of the railway fatality which occurred near "Waitotara on Saturday, by which a surfaceman named Neil Peter Neilson, aged 53, lost his 'life snow that deceased went out to work as usual, and at 8.30 a.m. he was seen working on the line, and at 10 am. his dead body was found at the bottom of a small embankment near •the railway line. Two trams passed the oot between 8.30 a.m. and 10 a.m., ! Vmr- it is presumed- one ot them struck Weilß&n, although the drivers and fireSSTo* the trains state they did not I See tiVe man, and had no knowledge LVf the accMent. An inquest was openEvidence of t> surfacemen it was addrivers and fireman may be present. nil O C Hilton watched'proceedings on Sniff of the Railway Department, and Detective Mason represented the police.