ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20473, 30 July 1928, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

DROWNED IN MINERAL BATH. (Per United Press Association.) ' WHANGAREI, July 28. An old age pensioner named Thomas Woods, an inmate of the Old People’s Home, was drowned in the mineral baths of Kamo Springs this morning. The deceased was said to _ have been acting against the regulations, and to have slipped into the bath when attempting to get a bucket of water. CAR STRIKES LIGHT POLE. THREE YOUNG MEN INJURED. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 28. As a result of a motor car striking an electric light pole in Remuera about 2 o’clock yesterday morning, three young men—George M'Millan, Felix Fisher and Geoffrey Marler—were admitted to Auckland Hospital with severe injuries to the head. The car was owned by G. M'Millan, sen. (Remuera), and was valued at over £IOOO. It was extensively damaged. The accident occurred when the party was returning home after a dance at a cabaret. There was a very heavy fog at the time. The condition of Fisher is reported as fairly serious. The others are making satisfactory progress. FALL FROM HOTEL WINDOW. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 28. Mr J. B. Andrews, an ex-Mayor of Napier, and. a delegate to the Power Board’s Conference, fell from a bedroom window in the Grand Hotel on Friday morning, his injuries necessitating his removal to the hospital. The injuries are serious, his head and pelvis being fractured. He is doing as well as can be expected. MARRIED WOMAN’S DEATH. CAR COLLIDES WITH CART. (Special to Daily Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 2S. The adjourned inquest into the death of Mrs Elizabeth Esther Bowman, the wife of William Bowman, of Fernsidc, who was the victim of a collision between a motor car and a horse and cart on the main drain road at Flaxton on July 13. was held at Rangiora to-day by Mr E. D. Mosley, sitting as coroner. Evidence given by six witnesses went to show that at about 5.45 p.m. on July 13 the car, which was driven by the deceased’s husband, collided with the horse and cart driven by a young man named Ellis MacKinnon Walters, a farm hand employed by Mr Stevenson, and that the shaft of the cart, penetrating the windscreen, inflicted injuries on Mrs Bowman, from which she died almost immediately. It was stated in evidence that the cart had no lights, and that the lamps on the car were defective, and after burning dimly went out about half a mile from where the accident occurred. The verdict was that Mrs Bowman died on the road, and that death was due to haemorrhage in the chest, caused by injuries received as the result of a motor car colliding with a box cart. Neither the car nor the cart had at the time an efficient light.