ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25458, 12 February 1944, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

BOARDING HOUSE FIRE VICTIMS There is little change in the condition of Mrs Helen Scott, who was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital on Thursday night suffering from severe burns received in the boarding house fire in Tennyson street. She is still on the seriously ill list. Her son, Leslie Scott, who was also injured in the fire, is progressing satisfactorily. STEADY PROGRESS Miss Joyce Lawrence, the girl who was found at the foot of the St. Clair Cliffs on February 2, continues to make steady progress in the Dunedin Hospital. COLLISION WITH STATIONARY CAR Sydney Falconer, aged 18, living at 8 Begg street, Musselburgh, was admitted to Hospital at 8 p.m. yesterday suffering from head injuries and concussion. He was riding a motor cycle along the Anderson’s Bay road when he collided with a stationary motor vehicle. TRAM CONDUCTOR INJURED While he was engaged in collecting fares on the Mornington cable car late yesterday afternoon, the conductor, Mr Harold Wyatt, aged 49, living at 3 Burke street, Mornington, was struck by a passing truck and received concussion and fractured ribs. He was admitted to the Hospital at 6 p.m. A CRUSHED FINGER, When a packing case fell, on his hand while he was working at W. D. and H. O. Wills’s storp yesterday, John Cain, a youth, 17 years of age, living at 22 Wynyard street, had a finger crushed. He was admitted to the Hospital at 12.40 p.m.