CASUALTIES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10542, 19 March 1920, Page 5

CASUALTIES

TEB-- PRESS ASSOCIATION. DAIIGAVILLE, March IS. A sad fatality occurred at*the Omnna sports “social 1 ' last evening:', when Mrs Hedley Keane, wife of the crack rille shot, whilst, dancing, fainted and expired. Doccasodikavcs -a husband and three little-children:- - two aucklaniTfatalities. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. • . .-AUCKLAND,- March 18. John Sharp, a railway shunter, married, aged twenty-six-,' was rmi‘ over by trucks at Papakura—through- Slipping on the rails, and died in Auckland hospital. . ... . • - Henry William Cook, of the schooner Tairoa, fell-from a tramcar on Tuesday night, and Subsequently died in hospital. ——— BOY DROWNED.--* * * Leslie McMeekan, a boy aged 14, was drowned at the Kinvee school baths yesterday. , ; WELL-KNOWN ATHLETE INJURED Tlie well-known eAnokland' ’Hthlete"At r B. Dormer, in attempting to lean from the floor to a table misjudged the distance, and struck his shins heavily on the edge of'the table. A gash was inflicted in the fight limb, and nine stitches were necessitated in securing the wound. The mishap was particularly unfortunate *<is Dormer . has ~"befell' training on well since his return from tlie Australasian championships, and his reappearance at forthcoming meetings was eagerly anticipated. ■