MANY MISHAPS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22403, 27 April 1936, Page 14

MANY MISHAPS

WEEK-END CASUALTIES BOY HURT ON TRAIN LEANING FROM WINDOW There were a large number of accidents on Friday and during the weekend, and several people were taken to the Auckland Hospital in St. John ambulances. With two exceptions the injuries of those admitted were not serious. Struck on the head by the buffer of a tablet oxchange while leaning out of a railway carriage window as a train entered the New Lynn station soon after four o'clock on Friday afternoon, Lloyd Gordon Strid, the' 15-year-old son of Mr. Nils Strid, of Edmonton Road, Henderson, received severe head injuries. The train was stopped immediately, and the boy was attended to by the crew until the arrival of Dr. W. G. Garew, of Avondale. He was later taken to the Auckland Hospital by a St. John ambulance, and his condition is reported to be serious. A dive into the shallow end of baths at Helensville on Saturday night resulted in Mr. Walter Merrick, farm hand, aged 22, single, of Kaukapakapa Road, Helensville, injuring his spinal cord. His condition is fairly serious. Head injuries were received by Mrs. Elizabeth Wainwright, aged 64, of 13 Kiugsland Avenue, when she was knocked over by a motor-cycle in Karangahape Road, on Friday night. While playing in a practice football match at Waiheke Island yesterday Thomas Fields, aged 18, of 28 Norwich Street, Newton, received a kick in the abdomen, causing internal injuries. He was attended by the St. John Ambulance officer on the island and was later brought to Auckland by steamer and was admitted to the Auckland Hospital. Another player received abdominal injuries in the same match, and was also taken to the hospital for medical attention, but he was able to go home. A fractured thigh was suffered by Mr. Alfred Rosser Perrott, aged 86, when he fell at his son's home at 26 Kingsway Avenue, Sandringham, on Sunday.