ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22198, 27 February 1934, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

_ ♦ CYCLIST FATALLY INJURED (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 26. A cyclist named Roy Simmons, aged 16, residing at Wylie road, Papatoetoe, was the victim of a fatal accident in the Great South road at Westfield at noon to-day when he fell from his machine and was run over by a taxi. In attempting to pass a motor lorry the youth lost control of his machine'and fell in front of the taxi cab, which was proceeding in the opposite direction. The front wheels of the taxi passed over him and his skull was fractured. /He died at 1.15 p.m. •" . ■ YOUTH DROWNED IN RIVER (Per United Press Association.) THAMES, February 26. A distressing fatality occurred at Ngatea, Hauraki Plains, yesterday, Edward Henry Joseph Harris, aged 19$, a farm hand employed by Mr J. Darlington, being drowned in' the Piako River at about 3 p.m. He was seen in a swimming suit on the Ngatea wharf, and later a factory employee, John Tyson, heard a splash and then calls. He dived into the river and saw Harris come to the surface and then disappear. There was a strong current at the time, and dragging operations have not yet recovered the body. FATAL FALL OVER CUFF (Per United Press Association.). v OPOTIKI, February 26. On Sunday at mid-day Mrs Boon, aged 28, the wife of Mr. E. A. Boon, the Waiocka schoolmaster, fell over a cliff at the Waioeka Gorge, six miles and a quarter from Opotiki, and was drowned. The tragedy took place on the concluding day of th; Waiocka School golden jubilee celebrations. MOTOR CYCLE TRAGEDY (Per United Press Association.) GISBORNE, February 26. A Maori, Wallace M'Clatchie, aged 19, died in the hospital as the result of injuries suffered at lluatoria whilst riding pillion on a motor cycle. He was wearing spurs, .which caught in the wheel. ARM SEVERELY LACERATED (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, February 26. Severe injury to his right arm was received by H. Barrett Wood, the Melbourne yachtsman who was recently concerned in an attempt to cross Cook Strait in an outboard launch. When he was testing a speed boat in Evans Bay on Saturday afternoon, Mr Wood was adjusting the engine when the motor flew up and the flywheel, turning at 4000 revolutions per minute, came in contact with his forearm, which was badly torn. Wood was admitted to Wellington Hospital. A SHOOTING ACCIDENT

(Per United Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, February 26. Thomas Pickering, a well-known athlete, and a member of the staff of the Awarua wireless station, was admitted to hospital with a bullet wound in the right side. He and a companion were rabbit shooting when the latter's gun, which had been placed on a gate post, accidentally discharged. The injured man's condition is satisfactory.