ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23205, 1 June 1937, Page 13

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

DEATH FOLLOWS COLLAPSE WELL-KNOWN RUGBY OFFICIAL (Per United Press Association) BLENHEIM, May 31. On his return from a football match at Picton with a team of which he was coach, John Michael Casey, aged 56, a farmer, of Grovetown, collapsed after entering his home and died. The deceased was widely known In Rugby cricles as a Marlborough representative forward, also as a selector, coach, and member of the Rugby Union. BOY KILLED BY CAR (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, May , 31. Matthew Gough, aged eight years, a son of Mr and Mrs Matthew Gough, of Petone, was killed when he was knocked down on the Hutt Road this afternoon by a car owned and driven by Mrs Emily Nina Wilkinson, of Wellington. Running out on to the road the boy was struck by the car and received severe internal injuries, from which he died almost immediately. KICKED BY A HORSE James Richards, a young man living at Wingatui, was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital at 10.50 a.m. yesterday suffering from injuries to his nose, received when he was kicked in the face by a horse.