ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
(Ft* OIIITED E**OS ASBOCIATKM.) AUCKLAND, March 6. Murray Tohu, 21 years of age, employe" by the Kauri Timber Company as a mill hand, died in the hospital as the result ol injuries received through timber falling o«s him while he was loading a truck. Hit, lived only twenty minutes after admissic* to the hospital. An old-age pensioner named WilKam Loader was found dead at his house in Pentland street, North-East Valley, about 6 o'clock last evening. The discovery was made by a next-door neighbour. Mr Loader had been living by himself for tho past two months. The case had not been inquired into last night, but it is possible that an inquest may be deemed necessary. A lad named Peter M'Millan, 16 years of age, employed by Mr Harvey, at Benhar, met with an accident on Monday by falling from a dray which he was driving. The wheel passed over his leg and fractured tho femur. He was brought in to the Donedm 'Hospital yesterday morning. , Lart night a motor car, occupied by two ladies and two gentlemen, while proceeding soutJi, refused to take the t»trn at Kerr and Pearson's smithy at the Cattleyards, and went through a wire fence, down a steep paddock; over an old watercourse, through another fence, and into Mr T. Samson's unoccupied scctijn. It was .brought to a standstill by tho nexj fence. Tho car was considerably damaged, but the occupants escaped pracfcinallv unhurt, and returned to town by the lato train.
ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
Otago Daily Times, Issue 16946, 7 March 1917, Page 4
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