CASUALTIES

Otago Witness, Issue 3549, 28 March 1922, Page 25

CASUALTIES

On Sunday, 19th inst., Anna Boulter, aged 13, while bathing with another girl at Tewaewae Beach, -Southland, got out. of her depth and was drowned. On the 15th inst. Mr James Blackmore, aged 44 years, a retired farmer at Southburn, was thrown out- or fell out of his gig, and was picked up unconscious and removed to the Timaru Hospital, where he succumbed on the 19th inst, A married woman, Mrs Jean Reid, aged 29 . years, was found dead at her residence. Grey Lynn, Auckland, on the 21st with a rubber tube from a gas iron connection in her mouth. She had no children. Deceased had been in ill-health. " Thomas Leigh, a messroom steward <n the Arahura. was found dead at the bottom of a companionway on the vessel. Evidence was given at the inquest that deceased and two others slept in a smoking room on Monday night, the boch- being found at 6 a.m., clothed in pyjamas. Owing to the severe nature of the injuries to deceased’s head the coroner ordered a post mortem examination. A man named John Gladwin Yercoe, a farmer of Putaruru, and aged about 46 years, was struck by a tramcar in Auckland, and died in the hospital four hours later. Deceased had only one eye, and was crossing the street, when apparently he stepped right in front of the tram. While engaged in building operations in business premises at New Plymouth on the 21st, Charles Burness Andrews fell from tne roof through a piaster ceiling to the concrete ground floor, sustaining a fractured skull. He was removed to the hospital, where he died early next morning. He was 42 years of age, and leaves a widow and three children in Auckland A young woman named Eva Simes, died at- the Wellington Hospital under circumstances that are being investigated by the police It is understood that deceased belongs to Canterbury, and came t-o Wellington recently from the Wanganui district. William John Port, aged 50, a farmer at Awahuri. who was removed to Palmerston North Hospital an Friday evening with a bullet wound in his head, died early on the 26th inst. He was found lying on the floor of a whare near his house. Deceased had been to Feilding during the day, and appeared to be in his usual state of health.