ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1711, 30 December 1919, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A shooting accident occurred at Kwjj whata yesterday, when Erzel Henry Ben-'" nett was accidentally shot in the left thigh by his cousin, Percy Hazelwood. It apt v pears that the two youths were out after blackbirds with a shotgun, when Bennett,' received Ins injury. He was removed Withe Palmerston North Hospital, where MM condition is not reported to be ..While assisting at the lire at K#r-'r reserve {Rotorua) on Sunday afternc^ o ,®s William Aitkcn was badly ‘ scaldeds» av feet and ankles. The ground beneath him and he fell into hvJti Suffering from injuries to hflfoi,,., a thigh, Leonard Ellis, agodJ/tha 'Wni. postal official, was ' He is kato Hospital on Saturday* two ' statod to nave been cauf f 1 trucks at Frankton 9 ' R otorua 01 . On Saturday evening ci . ossing wifch a press collided at driven by Mr motor lorry . dairyman. The - David Humphrey fied with dairy prolorry, which was !to p ieoes- i( r Edduce, was smash, jj, the face, and was wards was cut j r Jacob Barnett Kravis, badly who ,fvas on t , re iy shaken. He received VVa l r ? Qro f wound. Both men were • a bad _ train to Rotorua, and were taken uij hospital. The engine of the sent to ~ somewhat damaged, • r i{ n collisions between mojorists occur* •jWJ Christchurch on Christmas Eve, red at the Madras street bridge and the °Jjr at the Manchester street bridge, renting in the luckless drivers finding themelves cast into the Avon with their machines, greatly to the enjoyment of the passers-by. In the first case two motorcyclists were concerned, but they emerged from the mishap with only a thorough wetting. ' In the second case the driver of a motor car, to avoid a motor-cyclist, - swerved on to the river bank and went down the steep side into the water. Fortunately he was uninjured, and the «ar stopped as ?oon as it was fully into the river, without overturning or being severe-; ly A Railway fatality* occurred between To;. Kauwhata and Rangiriri (Huntly district). . on Wednesday night, the victim being Mr Charles Do Thierry, aged about 20, who ; was a member of a well-known Ranginit family. Mr Do Thierry was apparently walking along the radway lme whenna was struck by the tram that left Auckland for Palmerston North ot MO-IhoL; train was travelling, at between 35 and 40 miles an hour at the time. Tlie enginedriver and firemen were they i i struck something, but thought / either a cow or a calf, and did not stop. .When they pulled up Frankton Junction, however, jound# traces of a human being. The tablet porf , ter at Rangiriri and a ganger BQt out a-jigger, and found the dead body of Mr 1$ Thierry. ft V assumed train was a special one for holidays Mr Do Thierry was not keepiap, a lookout for it, and consequently nr t 'his, fata An inquest was hold at Huntly on Friday when q the coroner’s finding w■» oonsed died through coming i*to dmitack . with a moving engint, no blan e being tuchablc U> the engmo-dmer. i.* : , P 'M