CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18518, 1 October 1923, Page 6

CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.

LAD AND PEA - RIFLE,

motors IN collision.

Several minor accidents occurred during the week-end. X }

A nine-year-old boy v named Leonard Arnold, who lives at Ostehd, Waiheke Island, was wounded in the thigh .by a pea-rifle bullet while 'but, !; shooting rabbits 'with other' boys yester3ay. . It is stated that a cartridge jammed, and on an attempt b'iing mad© to extract it, the rifle wont of;. <:-' Arnold wis brought to the city by boat yesterday afternoon, and was conveyed to the hospital in. the St. John ambulance. . ■~

A married woman, Mrs. :: Smith, L, who lives in Crescent Roach One Tree Hill, fell while alighting from a tram, car in, Epsom, about 7.30 p.m. on Saturday. She sustained a dislocated '■' shoulder, and* other minor injuries, 1 and after being attended to by a doctor, was 1 conveyed ;to her home. , \ ■■■\ ; --. : -:.-.vv^'. ; v

■■•■>£' collision between \ a, motor-cycle and a motor-car occurred outside the hospital gates shortly after five o'clock On; Saturday afternoon. The rider of the cycle, Mr. J. W. Hind, of Waihi, sustained injuries to his legs, and was admitted to the hospital. * ■''' [ An able seaman named Adam Lewell, belonging to the Portland Cement Company's steamer Mahurangi, had his left hand badly crushed when loading angle irons on the vessel at ;. the company's wharf at 8.30 a.m. on |Saturday..:. He was afterwards ' admitted-to the hospital,,