CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3418, 19 September 1919, Page 51

CASUALTIES.

Mr William Shave, an old resident, aged 63 years, who was employed on the borough staff, was drowned in the Gore reservoir on the 10th inst. He was noticed by children about 2.30 opening trie door leading to the reservoir. Not seeing him return, the children later went to the door and saw his body floating in the water. While Dr Robertson, who' was driving a motor car in an Auckland suburb, was crossing a tramline' a tramcar got into dangerous proximity. He swerved the motor, but could not avert a collision. He was thrown out of the car, and was removed to the hospital with his skiull seriously fractured. While a Maori child was replenishing a fire at the Rangitaiki swamp, where some workmen were engaged, he accidentally gathered up a detonator with an armful of wood. An explosion occurred, and shattered his hand, which was amputatad at the hospital. An elderly lady, Mrs M'Ewan, widow of Mr John M'Ewan, of Wanaka, died unexpectedly on Sunday, 7th inst., at her residence. Albertown. The deceased leaves a family of grown-up daughters and a son, who returned from the war about a fortnight ago. In a football match, Waimate versus North Ota go, en Thursday, 4th, George Hawke, aged 19 years, a Waimate forward, during the first ]5 minutes of the game, pitched on to his head and received an injury to the spine between the shoulders, causing partial paralysis, which gradually extended, the young man expiring on the 13th inst. William Thomas Donald, a waterside worker, who was injured by a case falling on him while being unloaded from a steamer, died in Auckland Hospital on the 13th inst. Arthur M'Vicar died in the Auckland Hospital as the result of a fall from steps at his residence at Grey Lynn. Advice from Ponui Island states < that Mr J. Howard, a married man. residing at Parn-ell, fell from a Muich and was drowned. The Hon. Mr MacDonald fell and broke his arm on the 15th when leaving the Parliamentary Buildings. Edgar Craddock Street, aged 20 years, a cadet "in the Havclock Post Office, was drowned on the 14th. He was swimming out to a launch in the river, when presumably he took cranio. The body has been recovered. De-ceased belonged to Mothven. On Saturday afternoon, Francis Williams, a returned soldier, aged 23 years, while riding a motor cycle between Invorcargill and Wyndham. was thrown violently on the road, sustaining a fractured skull. He died'after an operation in the hospital. While a wiuow named Mrs Rafferty, residing in Mount Eden, was crossing Kvber Pass road on the 15th she was knocked down by a taxi driven by B. G. Hatcher, and died in the hospital. Tho driver did not see the deceased until he was very close to her. > A boy named Gordon Athole Cowley, aged years, was found drowned in Auckland Harbour. It is believed that the deceased was playing near the waterfront, and had gone on to the beach, being overtaken by the tide. The body of a woman was found on tho Makara beach on tho 17th. Later it was identified a 3 that of a single woman named Gertrude Sarah Knight, aged 49 years, who

had been missing since Tuesday night. The deceased, who was a Wellington resident, had been in ill-health for' some time. Harry Reid, a .single man, aged 45, with no relatives in the dominion, was accidentally (killed whilst bushfolling at' Lower Retaruke, near Taumarunui, recently. A serious moror accident occurred on tho Marangi Hill, Wangamd, a car going over a bank and somers iult : ng till brought up against a fence. he car was badlysmashed, and a ycuny man named Hardy was found unconscious in a paddock, having evidently been throv, p. across the fence. He was removed to the hospital, whero he lies in a critical state. At Port Chalmers on < Thursday a boatbuilder named Robert Gunningham got foul of a saw in Messrs Miller Bros.' yard, and was cut r.bout the face and hands. Ho was removed to the Cottage Hospital, and is reported to be progressing favourably. Mr James Henderson, a retired miner from Skippers, aged 84- years, died suddenly on the 17th on the railway station platform at Burkes. The deceased nad been staying for the past 15 weeks with a resident of Burkes named Mr Wilson, and he went down to tho station in the evening to meet a friend on the 6.30 train. When he reached the station he sat down gasping, and a friend ran to ask the stntionmaster to iret him a drink of water. The stationmaster did as he, was asked, but tho man was dead .when he returned.