ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23796, 1 May 1939, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

STRUCK BY MOTOR CAR A PEDESTRIAN KILLED (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Apl. 3. Struck by a motor car, a pedestrian was killed almost instantaneously in the Khyber Pass road on Saturday evening. The driver of the motor car failed to stop after the accident. The victim was Thomas Connolly, aged 38 years, single, a gardener, of Avondale. The police stations and motor garages in the Auckland district were immediately informed of the accident, and throughout the night and to-day the motor inquiry section of the Central Police Station, and officers at the Newmarket Station, were engaged in making inquiries. Mr Connolly, who was a native of Manchester, England, arrived in New Zealand about 1929. He had no relatives in the Dominion. YOUNG WOMAN ELECTROCUTED (Per United Press Association) WANGANUI, Apl. 29. The body of Gwen Lilian Jones, aged 20, daughter of Mr L. T. Jones, a farmer, of Paparangi, was found early this morning underneath the steel tower carrying the Wanganui-Rangitikei electric power lines across the Wanganui River. The deceased had evidently climbed the tower and come in contact with a live wire carrying 110,000 volts,, and was electrocuted. She fell 90ft to the ground. A DISLOCATED ELBOW Edward Clark, a small boy living at Harraway road, Green Island, was admitted to the Hospital at 3.20 p.m. yesterday suffering from a dislocated elbow, the result of a fall while at play. A FRACTURED HIP An elderly man named Thomas Dillon. who resides at 31 Leven street, Roslyn. fractured his hip when ho slipped at his home on Saturday afternoon. He was admitted to the Public Hospital at 5.10 A SCALP WOUND When he slipped and fell on the pavement on Saturday afternoon, John Marshall, a middle-aged man who resides at 77 Bay View road, suffered a cut on the scalp. He was admitted to Hospital at 6 o’clock. FOOTBALLERS INJURED While playing for the Dunedin Second Grade team against ZingariRichmond on Saturday. B. McPherson, who resides at 96 Kenmure road, suffered concussion. He was admitted to Hospital at 4.45 p.m. William McKerrow, while playing for Southern against University, also suffered concussion when he received a kick on the head, and was admitted to Hospital at 5 o’clock. He resides at Chapman street. St. Kilda.