ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20963, 28 February 1930, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FOUND DEAD IN GULLY. (Per United Press Association.) HAMILTON, February 27. John Simpson, aged 04, married, a patient in the Waikato Hospital, wandered from the institution on Tuesday night. He was found dead in a gully 100 yards from the hospital late yesterday afternoon after an arduous search by the police and the staff. Simpson, who had been an, inmate of the institution for six weeks, wandered away in his pyjamas. ■

MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT ■ INJURED. (Peb United Press Association.; TAUEANGA, February 27. Mr 0. E. MacMillan, M.P. for Tauranga, met with a slight mishap this afternoon which forced him against the steering wheel. He broke a bone in his chest, and will be confined to his homo for a few days. His injuries are not serious; . ■ A -LEG FRACTURED. (Per United Press Association.) PAHIATUA, February 27. J. A. Young, a married man, a linesman, employed by the Tararua Electric Power Board at Makomaka, had his leg fractured when the pole on which lie was working fell. A BOY INJURED. {Peb United Press Association.) PAHIATUA, February 27. A boy named Eric Brown, a son of Mr W. T. Brown, a local business man, had his right leg fractured when he fell at a school excursion at Plimmerton yesterday.