Week-End Accidents

Northern Advocate, 18 July 1938, Page 8

Week-End Accidents

■[Special to “Northern Advocate”! AUCKLAND, This Day. A number of week-end accidents were reported in Auckland. In the majority of cases, the injuries received were not serious. As a result of a collision on the Waterfront Road on Saturday afternoon, Mrs Myriam Ryland, of 29 Parkside Street, St. Helier’s, was cut by broken glass and required stitches in her head. Jack Lyall, aged 18 years, of 15 Norwich Street,' Newton, injured his spine when playing football. His condition was considered serious last night.

A bullet wound in the left shoulder was suffered yesterday by Jack EricOrpin, aged 18 years, of Mangere. as the result of the accidental discharge of a pearifle he was carrying. His condition is not regarded as serious. Through falling from a motor-cycle on Saturday, Mr Cameron Gwillim, of 8 Avon Street, Parnell, suffered concussion and head injuries. He was admitted to hospital, where his condition is reported to be serious. An elderly woman. Miss Elizabeth Cullen, of Palmerston, was killed instantly late on Saturday afternoon when she was struck by a motor-car near Goodwood. 37 miles from Dunedin.

Fatal injuries were suffered by Mr William Samuel Ridler. a retired railwayman, of Wellington, when he was struck by a motor-car at the cornier of Brooklyn Road and Nairn Street, shortly after 7 o’clock on Saturday night. Mr Ridler was president of the Athletic Rugby Football Club, and a member of the Wellington Bowling Club.

A three and a-half-year-old child. Clarence John Figg. son of Mr F. J. Figg, of Kaitaratahi, fell into a hole in the backyard of his home on Saturday morning and was drowned. The hole, which was six feet deep, was half-full of rain water.