ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
FALL FROM LORRY MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED • (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Mar. 23. Cyril Blacklaws, the Rugby League footballer, who returned to New Zealand six months ago after playing club football in England, is in the Auckland Hospital in a serious condition. While working on a farm near Puni he broke a small bone in his wrist. A lorry was conveying him to a doctor at Pukekohe, and when the driver stopped at . Attwell’s road to allow some Maori women to alight, Blacklaws fell to the roadway, suffering concussion and head injuries. A Maori girl, Waiata Graham, aged 20, of Hawera, also fell and was taken to the hospital. Her condition is fair. MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED CRASH OVER EMBANKMENT (Per United Press Association) MASTERTON, Mar. 23. A motor cyclist, James William Hargart, single, of 17 Cuba street, Lower Hutt, was killed on the main road near Kaiparoro early yesterday morning. Marks on the road indicate that the machine ran off the highway when attempting to take a bad bend and crashed over an embankment. Hargart was apparently killed instantly. The discovery of the accident was not made until about 24 hours later, as the victim and the cycle were hidden by ferns. . DEATH' OF ELDERLY CYCLIST COLLISION WITH MOTOR CAR (Per United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Mar. 24. A cyclist named J. Jackson, aged 77 years, of 44 Harper street, was taken to hospital on Saturday evening with injuries received in a collision with a motor car, and died soon after his admission.
FALL OVER CLIFF DUNEDIN MAN KILLED (Per United Press Association) v TIMARU, Mar. 23. The Timaru police have been advised o j£ a fatal accident in the Huxley Gorge, 50 miles from Kurow. Robert Clive Crawford, aged 20, residing at 7 Melville street, Dunedin, a member of a shooting party, accidentally fell over a cliff and died of injuries before the arrival of a doctor. FALL FROM STACK A child named Margery McKenzie, who resides with her parents at Wylie’s Crossing, was admitted to Hospital at 10.5 p.m. on Saturday, suffering from internal injuries received when she fell from a straw stack at her home- ' ' ‘ ‘ ,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24255, 25 March 1940, Page 6
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