TELLER DROWNED

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25345, 29 October 1945, Page 4

TELLER DROWNED

SWEPT OUT TO SEA WIFE'S EFFORT IN VAIN (P. A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday A teller at the Bank of New Zealand, Ashburton. was swept out to sea from the Ashburton River month this morning and drowned. He was Mr George Theodore Capstlck, aged about 44, married, with three children. Mr Capstick was netting whitebait on the Ashton side of the river in company with his wife, a son and a daughter when a wave broke into the net. He hung on to the net, which was swept into the river, and Mr Capstick, who was wearing heavy gumboots, was carried out to the sea in an estimated 12-knot current. Mrs Capstick tried to save her husband and she was saved by her son, who pulled her out of the water when she was in difficulty. The coastline for some distance on both sides of the river mouth was patrolled up to darkness, hut the body was not recovered. The net was washed up on the beach on the opposite side of the river.

CYCLIST KILLED CHILD ESCAPES INJURY (P.A.) DUNEDIX, Sunday A labourer received fatal injuries this afternoon when he was thrown from his bicycle. He was Mr John Oasey, aged 34. Deceased was carrying his five-year-old son on the bar of the machine and it is believed the child caught his foot in the front wheel, causing the cycle to collapse. Mr Casey was thrown heavily on his head and died in hospital, but the child escaped wifh a few bruises and shock. MOTOR-CAR OVERTURNS MAORI WOMAN INJURED (0.C.) ' TAUPO, Sunday A Maori woman, Mrs Len Sharp, of Taupo, received numerous cuts and bruises to the face, back and logs, and suffered from shock, when a motor-car in which she was a passenger failed to negotiate a corner on the Terrace Hill, just south of Taupo. last night. The vehicle struck a bank a glancing blow and overturned. The driver, Mr A. R. Rodgers, mill worker, of Oruanni, escaped injury. Mrs Sharp was admitted to the Rotorua Hospital. Her condition t-oday is not serious. FACTORY BOILER BURSTS TWO WORKERS IN HOSPITAL When a boiler burst at the premises of New Zealand Cheese, Ltd., St. Benedict's Street, City, early on Saturday morning, a man and a youth employed on the night shift suffered intensive burns and shock. They were Mr William McDonald, aged 31, single, of 21 Nelson Street, City, and Kaki Davis, aged 16, of 6.1 West Street, Newton. Both were admitted to the Auckland Hospital. Their condition last night was not serious. Another man was treated in the casualty department. CAR CRASHES INTO POLE OCCUPANTS DISAPPEAR (p.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday Mystery surrounds a car crash on the main south road botween Rolleston and Burnham at about three o'clock on Saturday morning. A late-model sedan car crashed into a concrete power pole on the Christchurch side of Rolleston. The force of the impact was so severe that the polo was pushed over a foot in its foundations, breaking a cross-arm at the top and dislocating the power service in the Leeston, Tai Tapu, Dunsandel and Burnham Camp areas. The car was badly damaged. A military guard from an oil.dump near by said that he went to investigate and saw two young men get out of the wreck and walk away. They told him that they were going to obtain assistance and made off toward Christchurch. They have not been seen since. It. is believed that they may he two Borstal escapees from Tnvercargill. The car was filled with food_, provisions, clothes and several full tins of petrol.

AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL (0.C.) HAMILTON. Sunday A committee appointed by the Auckland Education Board to inquire into the proposal to establish an agricultural high school is to make a tour of the district, visiting Te Awamutu, Otorohanga, Te Kuiti. Matamata, Morrinsvillo, To Arohn and Paoroa, during this week. The chairman, Mr J. M. McWlmnnell, said replies to a questionnaire revealed a widespread demand for the school, and already 100 pupils were assured. The Hamilton High Srhool board of governors has approved the principle of establishing the school.