ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18850, 1 May 1923, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A DREDGE CAPSIZES. ENGINEER DROWNED. (Pee United Pbess Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, April 30. About noon the Harbour Board’s dredge, Thomas King, while engaged' in depositing stone at the breakwater extension, .capsized, owing to the skip not working properly. Of the crew of, five two, reached the breakwater safely, and a boat pioked up the other three;' bat one) J. Brockenshire, the engineer, an elderly man, waa dead—apparently drowned. ' FARMER’S LEG FRACTURED. William Dolan, a farmer at Waiwera South, was admitted -to the Dunedin Hospital yesterday suffering from a fractured right leg received through a horse that he was riding falling on. top of him. ' A MJLKMAN INJURED. While George Thompson, who is, employed at Balclutha by ■ the Clutha Dairy Company,' was stepping from a cart yesterday, he slipped and broke 1 a leg. Ho waa admitted to the Dunedin Hospital. / A CRUSHED HAND. James Purvis, employed by the Dunedin Corporation, caught a horse that was running away in a cart of which he w®a in charge yesterday, but he was pulled down, and the wheel of the cart ran overone of his hands. Ho was taken to the Hospital to receive attention to the member, which was badly crushed FOOTBALLER INJURED. G. Blanks, a Pirates forward (Invercargill), received a compound fracture of the thigh on Saturday evening about 7 o Clock (says the Southland limes). He was gmng home on a motor cycle_ after the football match in Invercargill. He was riding along the road between Wallacetown and Winton, keeping- well to the left side when a oar ap- • proaohed with bright headlights. Blanks moved still further to the side ofi the road, but the car struck his cycle and he was thrown heavily. The unknown motorist passed on. Blanks was found some tame later by a resident of the district, who obtained a conveyance, and the injured man was taken to the Southland Hospital, whore he is progressing as well as can be expected.