ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
SEAMAN DROWNED NEAR WHARF. ANOTHER BODY RECOVERED. (Per United Press Association.) ■ ~ WELLINGTON, November 30. About 10 o clock last night a seaman, whose name is at present unknown, was seen to fall off the wharf near the Westmoreland and disappear in the darkness. The body has not yet been recovered. This morning, while fishing off the Thorndon breastwork, a fisherman hooked and hauled up the body of another unknown man, who had been in the water for some time. The fisherman summoned a police party who were nearby dragging for the body of the seaman, and they brought the body ashore. Efforts at identification have so far been unsuccessful. INFANT FATALLY SCALDED. (Per Unitep Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, November 29. Natalie Colleen Fitzgibbon, aged a year and a-half, daughter of a Loburn farmer cued in the Christchurch Hospital last evening as the result of being‘scalded from the accidental fall of a saucepan of boiling water. HEAD INJURIES. As the result of a motor car eapsisin"near Mosgiel on Saturday -.afternoon” Samuel Worsley, a widower, aged so’ residing at Kaitangata, was admitted to the hospital suffering from serious head injuries. He .was operated on and his condition is reported to he improving.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21197, 1 December 1930, Page 10
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