ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19844, 17 July 1926, Page 12

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

LABOURER FOUND DEAD. (Peb United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 16. A farm labourer named Kenneth Codling aged 50 years, who has been missing since Monday, was found dead yesterday. Deceased was employed on J. Simpson'S farm at Kuawai, and left the house in the mornin"’ and was not seen alive again till his body was found 50 yards from the house. At the inquest the doctor’s evidence disclosed that deceased had been receiving attention for heart trouble, and he gave it as his opinion that a heart attack had been the causa of death. The coroner returned a verdict accordingly. YOUNG WOMAN KILLED. (Peb United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 16. Grace Baldock, aged 20 years, whose parents reside in New Plymouth, was killed to-day as the result of an accident in Khyber Pass. She was riding a bicycle when she collided with a heavy motor lorry, which threw her aside, her head striking the kerbstone. She died 10 minutes after admission to hospital. TABLET PORTER’S DEATH. (Pee United Press Association.) HAWEBA, July 16. At an inquest this afternoon concerning the death of George Thomas Rollerson, tablet porter, Mokoia, who was killed on the evening of July 2 by an excursion tram from Hawera, the verdict of the jury was that deceased was accidentally killed through being struck on tlio head by a railway ennine while on duty at the Mokoia railway statiou, no blame being attachable to anyone. A LABOURER KILLED. iPee United Press Association.) WANGANUI, July 16. A labourer named Walter Thomas Brown, a single man, aged 45 years, fell 65ft on to the concrete floor of Kompthorno, Prossers works at Aramoho this afternoon, death being instantaneous. This is the second fatal accident which has occurred since the construction of the works commenced. De. ceased was an ex-hotelkeeper of Wellington. LORRY DRIVER KILLED. (Peb United Press Association.) NAPIER, July 16. Edwin Phillips, of Napier, was killed early this afternoon as the result of a lorry he was driving leaving the road i n Matahourua Gorge and falling 120 ft into a stream below. The lorry was travelling at a moderate speed around a bend when it appearsthat the sudden application of the brakes caused it to skid and go over the side of the road. Some months ago a service car went over the bank in this gorge, and three people were killed. A SUDDEN DEATH. (Peb United Press Association.) ASHBURTON, July 16. John Clark, aged 62 years, a butcher, late of Methven died suddenly in the Ashburton Hospital on Wednesday. He is supposed to have relatives in Otago. COLLARBONE FRACTURED. (Peb United Press Association.) GISBORNE, July 16. Shortly before 7 o’clock to-night a middleaged married man named Oswald Alexander Burns, when riding a cycle near Makaraka, was knocked down by a car containing some Maoris, and suffered a fractured collarbone.