WEEK-END MISHAPS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 99, 27 March 1939, Page 9

WEEK-END MISHAPS

CAR OUT OF CONTROL. IN HASTINGS STREET. Per Press Association. HASTINGS, March 26. To the accompaniment of a roaring engine and a series of crashes, a car J careered madly about Market Street, < Hastings, about nine o’clock last night, hitting parked vehicles and fin- 1 ishing broadside across the road. Tbo • driver, Donald McLeod, a middle-aged ' resident of Havelock North, received head injuries, and was removed to hospital. It is believed that when Air McLeod started the engine of the car the accelerator jambed, and in an attempt to free it lie lost control. The car suddenly shot forward, veered across the road with the engine racing, struck a culvert and collided violently with a parked car. Continuing its wild dash, it cannoned off, crossed the road, and struck a second vehicle, parked opposite, which it pushed for 30 feet before skidding round and coining to rest broadside across the street. Extensive damage was done to all three vehicles. FALL OVER CLIFF. SERIOUS INJURIES INFLICTED. Per Press Association. HASTINGS, March 26. Attracted by cries of help, three youths rabbit-shooting in >the rough country near Cape Kidnappers at six o'clock to-night found a young man standing on the edge of a cliff seeking aid "for a companion who had fallen over a short time previously. The party made a detour and at the base of the cliff, on a shingle bed, discovered L. J. Potham, aged 20. of Hastings. seriously injured. IV itn great difficulty, including , a rn.ee with the tide, the party carried Mr Potham to the road, where a doctor was summoned. The injured man . was later taken to hospital, where his condition was stated to l>e critical. CHILD DROWNED. IN ROTORUA LAKE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND. March 26. A six-year-old hoy, Wallaroo Cookson. the son of Mr Albert* Cookson, a • Public Works Department employee, ' was drowned in Lake Rotorua this at- | teraoon, when he slipped into a deep ■ part in the small hike near the Maori ; church at Oliinemutu, while searching for frogs. The child was in the com- • panv of a girl of II years, whose atj tention was called to the tragedy by ' cries. Another small l>oy and girl immedi- ■ ately went for the assistance of W il- ’ liam Wliareaitu. tlie New ‘ Zealand champion swimmer. W hareaitu dived into the lake and brought ' the child’s body to the surface from a 3 depth of about 20 feet.

CYCLIST KILLED. YOUNG BOY SUCCUMBS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 26. Kata] head injuries were suffered by a Ik)v when he tell off his hicvele at Mount Bosk ill on Saturday afternoon. The victim was Barry Llewellyn Bailey, aged 10, Hon of Air Clifford Bailey. of Alount Bosk ill. When the accident occurred, deceased was on an errand, accompanied by three other boys. They rode down a steep grade, and it was while turning the bottom of the hill that deceased, who had a milk billy on the handlebars of his bicycle, fell, striking bis head on the paved roadway, suffering haemorrhage of the bruin. He died in hospital. TBEE-FELidNG TRAGEDY. MARRIED MAN’S DEATH. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH. March 26 Struck bv a treo which he was helping to fell on the property of Air I. Parry, Papanui. Mr Keith A\aru, a married man with two children, of 28 Wilmer Street, Christchurch, was killed almost instantly. Mr AVaril and his brother. AH David Alexander W ard, with two other coung men, were felling an old wattle, Keith Ward sawing and the others guiding the tree by pulling a rope to prevent it falling on a house on the property. As the tree fell. Air Ward began to run in the same direction, and the trunk fell across him.