ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24460, 20 November 1940, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

CRUSHED TO DEATH ACCIDENT IN SHIP'S HOLD (Pes United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 19. White assisting to unload live shells a vS at &e Naval Departments wharf at 10.30 this morningiCgW Christie, aged 61. was killed. The shells, which.-were, in -square boxes, were being lifted by a crane, and the police have been informed that Christie was crashed in the hold. . The deceased's widow resides at 30 Lipton street Wanganui. He -was a returned soldier, having served with the First New Zealand Cycle Company. A SOLDIER INJURED STRUCK BY TABLET EXCHANGE (Pi* United Press association) HASTINGS, Nov. 19. Struck on the head by the tablet exchange when he leaned fr°» ™ e window of a leave tram from Trentham entering the Otane station to-day, a soldier of No. 1 Training Battalion suffered painful injuries. He was Private E C. Wilkinson, and his home is believed to be in Gisborne. Dr T. 5. Norris attended the injured man and * ordered his removal to the Waipukurau ■ Hospital, where it was reported that ; his condition did not appear-to. be serious. The train was delayed hall an hour as the result of the accident. DROWNED IN RIVER .RECOVERY OF MAN'S BODY (Per United Press Association) HAMILTON, Nov. 19. The body of Arthur James O'Brien, a lingle man, aged 28, was found in the Waikato River at Ngaruawahia. He had been missing from Horsham Downs since Tuesday. O'Brien was staying on a farm at Horsham Downs, and set off to exercise a two-year-old horse, which was drowned in the river.