ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Manawatu Times, Volume XLII, Issue 1809, 6 May 1921, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MOTOR TOPPLES OVER BANK.

(Per Press Association.) NAPIER, Last Night.

Whilst proceeding on the slippery road between Mohaka and Napier today, a taxi skidded and toppled over a bank, turning thre'e somersaults. A passenger, E. Harris, suffered internal injuries and injuries to the scalp and spine, and his condition is serious. |A returned soldier named Taylor sustained a broken leg and concussion, and the driver, Willis, was badly shaken. The sufferers were conv'eyed to the Wairoa Hospital. Another car almost repeated the performance of the first, skidding in the same way, but fortunately its progress was stopped after one wheel had gone over the edge of the bank..

FELL OVERBOARD.

AUCKLAND, Last Night.

A returned soldier, James McLeod, aged 29, a roadmaker at Cape Colville, fell overboard from a launch at 2.30 this morning, while en route to Auckland.

BURNT TO DEATH.

TAUMARUN.UI, May 5. A shocking tragedy occurred shortly- before midnight on Wednesday, by which Walter Burgolte, of Auckland, and Darcy R. Hunter, of Nelson, were burned 'to death in a three-roomed whare at Okahukura. The whare was occupied by three men engaged on a fencing contract. The third occupant, a brother of the deceased Hunter, found the whare ablaze and tried to get his brother out, but- he had to abandon his task. It is surmised that both the deceased were suffocated by smoke before being burnt. It is thought that a spark or* a log fell out of the fireplace, the fire having been built up by the men prior to going to bed.