ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 317, 1 February 1922, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

While Mr J. Matheson, foreman cable jointer of the Post and Telegraph Department. Dunedin, was using a m-piacle containing molten metal an exp n,.on ot enrred, scattering the metal over an area, of ten feel. Mr Matheson received severe, bums about Ids face and both eve. wee. seriously injured. He was removed lo) the hospital, where he is progressing towel I as lan he expected. Ihe accident waii I tended with another unfo, lnnate optsed . for while cranking up the motor car ' eouvev his comrade to the hospital. - .Mr Manx has fits wrist broken. ■ The ho.lv of an elderly man was found , ;d;o.tl one 'mile from the Puketapu store e . | Mondav. There were no C ''' stances, and ii is surmised dial death , due to lalurM cause-, '1 he body'Was idem, lied as that of Charles StowarV. or Sui'.l,. ulio had been employed by Mr (mb ( a eook at Shercndcn. 'I be body was stib.c- | (|iietifly removed to tlic Napici moi-pic. ARMED CRUSHED IN MACHINE. Ve.-lerdav at the Foxton rope works Thomas Brewer was caught by the machinery of a hacking apparatus and an aim was severely crushed lo die elbow. He was removed lo the Palmerston Norm Public Hospital and the injured limb was amputated hist above the elbow. He was reported today lo be making good proffer Press Association.) TfMARF. Fell. 1. \ child. 3A vears old. named Kdytlie (’•(_:« ilia Kemptheree, strayed from her home ,|,i s morning and was found drowned m the lark pond shortly afterwards.