ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
A CONTRACTOR DROWNED. (Per- United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 15. Walter Carroll, aged 26, a contractor, fell off a barge at Meremete, near Mercer about midnight and .was drowned.
FATALLY INJURED WHILE BATHING. ■> (Per United , Press Association.) - AUCKLAND, February 15. Guy Lobley, aged 19, one of a party of : Territorials ■ bathing at Devonport, dislocated his -neck .when -diving from a rock in shallow water. He was removed to hospital, .where he died later..
DEATH OF A NURSE. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, February 15. The inquest on the body of Nurse Payhter of the Porirua Mental Hospital has been;postponed till Monday.,
A FRACTURED LEG. Angus L. MacSw.ain, seven years of age, residing with his parents at 80 D.undas street, was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital .at 8.55 last night,suffering from a fractured right .leg. He was playing with some boys near. the_ bridge in • Dundas street, and when trying to .cross' the fence his foot caught in a picket.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20644, 16 February 1929, Page 14
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