ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1711, 30 December 1919, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A Mastertoii paper states tliiil a ncin 'painful accident bofol Mr E. B. 'Smith of Carrington, during the Christmas hohcl. vs. Me was engaged in clnpping a l, ra?s tap with a chisel, when a piece Hew oil and lodged in one of his eyes. Ihe .sutierer was attended to hy Dr. .Johnston, who ordered his removal to Wellington to consult^ an eve specialist. No time was lost m getting Muunfortunate man to Wellington by motor car. Upon arrival it; was soon seen that the ease was a hopeless one. and there was nothing for it but to remove the eye. Dm - in" tho whole tirin' tin* poor fellow suiierou intense agony, lie will he coniied to horpital for) sQine time. A chapter of accidents occurred in Nelson during Christmas week. Sergt.-Major Shaw, of the Defence Department, while jiding Ids bicycle with a daughter on the hack and another, one in front. Collided with a motorist and was injured along with one of the girls. A hoy named McKenzie fell into a sheep race near the railway wharf and was pluckily rescued by a waterside!', James Williams, and a young man, Noel Grant. A swimmer collapsed at the Port and was rescued in the nick of iiino, wink* a motorist ran over a clog «(nd , fji.s car was forced against a kerlnng, spliniering the wheel.