Three Auckland Casualties

Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 95, 22 April 1940, Page 6

Three Auckland Casualties

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 21. , Serious head injuries and concussion were suffered by a schoolboy, Patrick .Sharp, aged 15, son of Mrs. Sharp, of Mount Wellington, when a horse he was hiding bolted and threw him against a telegraph pole this morning. The boy was taken to the Auckland Hospital. His condition is regarded a 3 being critical. An eye-witness of the accident stated that Sharp’s horse, after running away, collided with another and then lurched into a pole. Collapsing under tho anaesthetic while in a dentist’s chair, Gordon Samuel Wing, a married man, aged 33, died on Friday. An inquest was opened on Saturday and was adjourned. The body of a man, later found to bo that of Arthur Sandiford, aged 57, married, of Mount Roskill, clad in swimming trunks, was discovered lying on a mud-bank a quarter of a mile from the shore at Blockhouse Bay on Saturday. Mr. Sandiford’s car was parked in the usual parking place about a chain from the water. Ilis clothes and personal effects were in the front seat. Ho left bis home to go for a swim as was his usual practice. His family became alarmed when he did not return for breakfast an hour later and inquiries were begun. Shortly before 3 o’clock a man who had been working on his boat on the beach saw a body lying on the mud-bank and informed the police. Mr. Sandiford was a strong swimmer, but had been complaining of pains in the region of tho heart for some time.