ADMISSIONS TO HOSPITAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26780, 25 May 1948, Page 6

ADMISSIONS TO HOSPITAL

Jack Allpress, aged 17, of Haig street Mornington, was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital yesterday afternoon with head injuries and concussion, received when he was struck by a cable car on the Mornington route. While playing football at Dunback yesterday Desmond McNeil, aged 19, of Waikouaiti, suffered a broken leg. He was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital last night. Margaret Lavender, aged 72, was admitted to hospital last night with a fractured leg, resulting from a fall at her home in Burwood avenue. BODY FOUND IN BREWERY p A WELLINGTON, May 24. The body of William Vaughan, aged 60, an ex-employee of New Zealand Breweries, was found by the night cellarman tarly yesterday morning in the Murphy street brewery. The body was lying in a depression between a pair of loading rails with the face in several inches of water. The postmortem examination is being made at the instruction of the coroner. CRUSHED BY LOG PA GREYMOUTH, May 24. While assisting to unload logs from a cable at Stopforth’s sawmill, Lake Arthur, this afternoon, an 18-year-old mill hand, Merle Smith, was, crushed by a 60ft rimu log weighing about eight tons and lost consciousness immediately. He was transported to the Westland Hospital, Hokitika, but died en route.