ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22718, 2 November 1935, Page 21

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

CHILD'S ARM INJURED Elizabeth Shaw, six years of age, residing at 2 Ranfurly street, Caversham, suffered a dislocation of the right elbow when she fell in the Caversham School playground yesterday. She was admitted to the Hospital at 1.40 p.m. MOTOR CYCLIST IN COLLISION Injuries to his hip were received by Hugh Graham, a single man, 19 years of age, residing at 11 Baker street, Caversham, when he. collided with a motor car while riding a motor cycle in Princes street yesterday. He was admitted to the Hospital at 12.30 p.m. MOTOR ACCIDENT VICTIM (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 1. At the inquest on Mrs Emily Elizabeth Bethune, whose death resulted from a motor accident on Paekakariki Hill on October 20, the verdict of the coroner was that she died in the hospital from internal injuries suffered when the car in which she was a passenger overturned while travelling up the hill. The evidence showed that on a bad corner the driver found that the steering gear had jammed and the discovery was made too late to prevent the car going over a bank. The car was travelling slowly at the time. DEATH AT WEDDING RECEPTION (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 1. While attending a wedding reception at Wellington late last- night, Robert Allender, aged 65 years, collapsed and died. Allender was an accountant, employed by the Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association. FOUND DYING IN CHURCHYARD (P«r United Press Association) AUCKLAND, November 1. A middle-aged man, who was found in the church yard at St. Thomas's Church, Union street, to-night, apparently suffering from poisoning, died about an hour after being admitted to the hospital. He was identified as George William M'Donald, aged 50 years. married, of Union street. A SLIDE TO DEATH (Pee United Press Association) GISBORNE, November 1. As the result of sliding down an overhead wire, a 10-year-old Maori boy named Reuben Waru was killed at Mangatu this afternoon. The boy's uncle has a cowshed erected on top of a hill 200 feet high, and the milk cans are sent down to the road below by means of two overhead lines of fencing wire. The lad left home to do the milking, and his body was later discovered against a post at the road end of the wire line. He had apparently slid down, and, being unable to check his momentum, had crashed into the post, death being instantaneous.