ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
FALL FROM MOTOR CYCLE Stewart Ritchie, a young man, who lives at 53 Helena street, South Dunedin, suffered a fracture of the left arm when he fell from his motorcycle on the Lower Portobello road yesterday afternoon. He was admitted to the Hospital at 7 o'clock. MAN FALLS INTO HOLD After apparently overbalancing, John Simmons, a waterside worker, fell 25 feet on to a furniture case in a hold of the Wingatui at the Birch street wharf last evening, and was admitted to the Public Hospital at 7.45 suffering from concussion and injuries to his right arm. Nobody witnessed the fall. Simmons is an elderly man, residing at 36 Loyalty street, South Dunedin. ACCIDENTAL DEATH MAN KILLED ON RAILWAY WHARF (Per United Press Association! GREYMOUTH, May 28. At the inquest on the body of Alfred John Cunningham, who was killed on the Greymouth railway wharf on May 25 during shunting operations, a verdict of accidental death was returned, with ho blame attachable to anybody.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23203, 29 May 1937, Page 14
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