ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
INJURIES TO HEAD Alfred James Jackson, who resides at Tairas, Central Otago, was admitted to the Hospital on Saturday evening suffering from injuries to his head and concussion. He was driving a motor car along Ravenswood road, St. Clair, when the brakes failed to .function, and in order to avoid a collision with pedestrians or other traffic, he ran the car into a bank, where it turned over. He was accompanied by bis brother, Leonard Beal Jackson, who escaped injury. The injured man, who follows the. occupation of a rabbiter in Central Otago, was placed on the seriously ill list. CHILD FATALLY SCALDED (Per United Press Association) HAMILTON, October 26. The death occurred last night in the Waikato Hospital of Joy Glenise Hagan, the two and a-half years’ old child of Air Frederick Hagan, of Raglan, as the result of scalds received at her home on Sunday. The child fell across a benzine tin of boiling water, which was to be used for a bath, and her arm wne immersed. She was admitted to hospital on the day of the accident. A verdict of accidental death was returned to-day.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22713, 28 October 1935, Page 5
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