WOMAN IS DROWNED WHEN CAR RONS OFF PUNT AT TUAPEKA

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6616, 22 May 1928, Page 2

WOMAN IS DROWNED WHEN CAR RONS OFF PUNT AT TUAPEKA

Husband Also With Deceased, But Escapes RECOVERY OP BODY NOT YET EFFECTED Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, May 21. When a motor car ran off a punt at Tuapeka Mouth yesterday Mary Jane Fahey, aged 33, was drowned. Deceased was with her husband in the car which was run on to the punt to cross the river Molyneux. The car ran over the end of the puuf. The body has not been recovered. DROWNED IN FRENCH PASS! NELSON, May 21. "While coming through the French Pass yesterday afternoon in a motor launch, Mr R. W. Reed, who is wellknown in Nelson, was thrown off the launch, which was caught in an eddy, and drowned. His body has not yet been recovered. DRIVER PINNED UNDER OAR IN MUD AND DROWNED FATALITY IN SWAMP NEAR CASTLECLEET. WANGANUI, May 19. Mr W. H. Scott, draper, of Aramoho, was killed in a motoring accident. Miss Stone, who received abrasions and is suffering from shock, and Mr Thomas Dillon, who had both bones in his right arm broken, are in hospital as the result of the accident. At about 9 o’clock at night the party was proceeding toward Castlecliff and at a corner near the soapworks the car turned from the road into the Balgownio Swamp, which the road skirts. A few minutes later the driver of a car proceeding along the road noticed the overturned car and help was sent for immediately. On lifting the car it was discovered the driver, Mr Scott, was pinned in the mud and water. He bad apparently been drowned. He loaves a widow and three children. DEATH FROM EPILEPTIC FIT. ROTORUA, May 21. George Ycsey Stewart, aged 51 years, a well-known resident fisherman, was found dead at his home on Sunday morning, death being duo to a I fall during an epileptic attack. MOTOR CYCLIST GRAVELY INJURED IN COLLISION BLENHEIM, Last Night. Charles Allen, aged 17, was riding a motor-cycle on Saturday evening when ho collided with a bicycle ridden by Bernard Duffy. The latter escaped with abrasions to tho face, but Allen was rather seriously injured, sustaining concussion and a gashed hip. Both were taken to hospital. BOY CYCLIST KILLED; KNOCKED DOWN BY CAE, CHRISTCHURCH, May 21, Knocked from his bicycle by a motor car at the intersection of Clarcucc Road and Leamington Street yesterday, Osmyn Benjamin Islip, aged 14, was admitted to hospital in an unconscious condition with injuries to his head, face and legs. lie was in a critical condition all day and died later. ‘LAMENTABLE IGNORANCE’ LEADS TO CHILD’S DEATH TIM All U, May 21. At the inquest concerning the death of a child named Tomlinson, four weeks of age, tho Coroner said that the evidence disclosed lamentable ignorance on tho part of tho grandfather und the mother of tho child in regard to feeding it. There had boon reprehensible conduct. on the part of the relatives in not calling in a doctor or a Plunkct nurse, LADS INJURED WHEN OLD GUN EXPLODES. DUNEDIN, May 21. Allan Mangan and Frederick Miller, both aged 1(1 years, wore taken to hospital suffering from injuries to their hands and feet. They loaded an old gun with powder and it exploded inopportunely.