WAIKATO INQUESTS

Northern Advocate, 29 December 1934, Page 3

WAIKATO INQUESTS

SEVEN AWAIT COMPLETION, [Special vo “Northern Advocate.”] . HAMILTON, This Day. Seven adjourned inquests are awaiting completion in the Waaikato, one at Te Aroha and six at Hamilton. The first concerns the death of Mr C. C. Waite, who was killed in an aeroplane crash at Waihou on November 28. Further evidence is to be heard in connection with the fatal injury received by Mr Polglase, who was involved in a shunting accident at Frankton on December 7. The circumstances of the death of A. J. Meade, who received fatal injuries in a collision between a train and a jigger at Tauph’i on December 18, have yet to be inquired into. The coroner has not ydt completed the taking of evidence relating to the death of Mr N. J. Davenport, who was fatally kicked by a horse at Ngarua on December 23. The drowning of Robert Bux’nell, an infant, at the Hamilton Lake on Christmas Day, will form the subject of further evidence to be taken.

Another inquest, which has been adjourned for further evidence, rentes to the death of Charles Bernard Allen Cole, a Borstal Institute inmate who escaped from Waikeria on May 22, and whose skeleton was found on a tree in the Waipa River on Wednesday. The last inauest concerns the death of an infant. Charles Lawrence Miles, who became suffocated while asleep yesterday morning.