FARMER DROWNED

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24972, 15 August 1944, Page 4

FARMER DROWNED

3 ; TRAPPED IN MOTOR-CAR I JI FALL INTO WANGANUI RIVER 1 ! (P.A.) WANGANUI, Monday r> | With the assistance of a diver from s New Plymouth, the motor-car which s plunged into the Wanganui River on 3 Saturday afternoon about six miles from the city was recovered late this afternoon by a police party working aboard the paddle steamer Waimarie. With much difficulty, the car was towed across the Jver deep under : water and eventually hauled ashore on a sloping sandy bank. I The body of the driver, Mr Robert 0 ! William Orton, aged 59. a well-known 1 i Wanganui farmer, was found in the s back seat. The car apparently had I plunged from the road along which it ® I was being driven by Mr Orton on Satc I nrday afternoon, and dropped nearly J'lOft. It wn.s eventually found in 3()ft 0 of water lodged between two papa 0 ledges. All windows were broken Mr II Orton had been drownefl. f I PEDESTRIAN KILLED p STRUCK BY MOTOR-CAR n (0.C.) WHANGAREI. Monday li Fatal injuries were suffered by a d pedestrian early on Sunday morning when he was struck by a motor-car on the main road near Awanni. He was Mr Alan Alfred Dean, aged 20, son of Mr Frank Dean, farmer, of Awanni. With a companion, Mr Dean was walking from Kaitaia to Awanni when j lie was struck by a motor-car driven by p Aircraftman W L. R. Geddes. who was home on leave. His companion was not injured, but Mr Dean received severe t head injuries and was unconscious when k taken to the Kaitaia Hospital, where ■- ho died later in the morning. I 1! An inquest was opened in the afterv i noon by the district coroner. Mr L. A. t Mcintosh, and adjourned Deceased was a well-known footballer and amateur wrest ler BUSHMAN'S DEATH tj EVIDENCE AT INQUEST i- (0.C.) HAMILTON. Monday s A verdict that death was due to i- shock ■!' 1 heart failure during an oper- - at ion necessitated by a severely ii crushed foot was returned by the ii coroner, Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M., at n an inquest into the death of Joe S Apaapa, a bushman, aged 22, of Pinedale, Putaruru. r Evidenco was given that deceased, 1 who died in the Waikato Hospital on - July 31 shortly after admission, had f climbed over the foot of a winch to K reach the operating platform while s working at Tokoroa. His foot had - apparently slipped on the winch frame girder aiid was crushed between the ' revolving spur wheel and the inner edge 1 of the girder. : OVERCOME BY GAS ; STATE MINE MANAGER * (0.C.) GREYMOUTH, Monday n While conducting an inspection of the Liverpool State mine at Rewanui -] this morning, the manager. Mr Albert - Smith, was overcome by gas. Ho was r under treatment for about two hours e before ho recovered. Mr Isaac Moesop, r an underviewer, who accompanied Mr Smith, was not affected. OVERTIME WORK CARPENTERS AT HOSPITAL t In response to a request by the Auckt land Carpenters and Joiners and 1 Joiners' Machinists' Union, the Auck- ■> land Hospital Board last night agreed i to permit members of the union em- ") ployed bv the board to work an addi- , tioiial eight hours a week at overtime r rates while work is available, the position to be reviewed at the end of March. 0 The union had written stating that the workers had found that, while the stabilised wage was sufficient to live on before the war, it was barely enough today. It asked that the additional - eight hours at overtime rates be per--1 mitted, at the men's option, in order - to bring their earnings up to approxis mately the level of those received by - outside carpenters and building trade - workers. < WOMAN SUFFERS BURNS Severe burns on the face and neck B were suffered by Mrs Dorothy Thomas, C aged 41, of 19 Sheridan Street. City, r when she was spattered by boiling fat 3 while cooking last evening. She was admitted to the Auckland Hospital.