ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
CEMENT WORKER DROWNED. Per United Press Associ.'ticn.i WHANGAREI, January 26. A worker at the Portland ‘Cement Works named Giles was drowned this afternoon. He was assisting in loading a boat at the wharf, and fell into the water and was neever seen again. The police received the news at 8 o’clock this evening, and Constables Clemence and Baesley, of Whangarei, are searching with lights and grappling irons. INQUEST ADJOURNED. (Per United Press Association.) GISBORNE, January 26. The inquest concerning the death of James Old, aged 20, .who died suddenly at Kaiti Beach yesterday, was adjourned, as the post-mortem gave no indication how the hajmorrhage which was the immediate cause of death, had occurred, and the coroner desired the report of the pathological department on specimens of the organs. FOUND DEAD. (Per United Press Association.) HUNTERVILLE, January 26. - Alexander Ross, a prominent Rangitikei resident, aged 65, was found dead in the paddock of a farm at Hunterville. He had gone out to tend the animals, and failed to return. A search was made, and the body was found. Deceased had not complained previouslv Tie was m Ms younger days an athlete, a man of excellent build, formerly employed as a blacksmith. CHILD’S LEG FRACTURED. A child, aged six years, William Crawshaw, living with his parents at 27 Harbour terrace, was admitted to the Hospital last night suffering from a fractured left leg, received through falling from a swing at Logan Park.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20317, 27 January 1928, Page 10
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