ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19258, 23 August 1924, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Pa* United Rums Association.) NELSON, August 22. John Rowland Talbot of Motueka, aged 14, son of Major D. W. Talbot, when returning from a shed at the rear of a house ran into a two-horso cultivator and sustained a broken rib, which penetrated the right lung. The night was very dark, and the cultivator was not in its accustomed place. The patient is progressing as well as can be expected. AUCKLAND, August 22. A sad fatality occurred at Papatoetoc this afternoon, when the infant daughter of Mr Peat was found drowned In a horse trough. The child, who was 18 months old, was left to play while its mother was preparing tea. It was later missed, and the body was found in a trough near the house. A married man named Robert Hewitt, 43 years of ago, who resides at 825 Cumberland street, was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital yesterday suffering from injuries to his head. Ho was attending to a machine used for taking scrub from the hillside at Logan Park, when a wire broke, and, flying loose, knocked him down.