CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3584, 21 November 1922, Page 29

CASUALTIES.

John Edward Ward, a masseur by occupation, who recently arrived from Wellington, was struck by two motor cars, one following the- other, and ru-trinud injuries to the hands, face, .neck, and bade, but they are not considered st r : oaa. He was removed to the Auckland hospital. The up Napier mail train collided with a motor lorry at a level crossing near Awapiini at 12.40 p.m. on the 14th. The driver of the lorry, Robert Paul Oppatt, was killed, and ;• boy. Cecil Jones, who was with him, reeoiv .1 a fractured thigh. Jones warned Opt aii ./f the train’s approach. The former, however, did not hear him and drove on to the line in front of the train, which hit the lorry side on and smashed it to pieces. Oppatt was a married man with three children. During the Maunganui’s trip from Sydney a steward fell while a gale was in progress, and dislocated his shoulder. William Jut As, nine years of ago. was found dro-v ted in the Richmond .School swimming bath, Christchurch, on the 14th. Frederick Pearson, a farmer, of Ruahine, aged about GO years, was found dead on the 14tli inst. from apparently self-inflicted shotgun wo tit ids. At To HauKe, a Maori child. Ivuine Makaore. three years of age, while playing with fire, set her dress alight. Iler screams brought her foster-mother, who extinguished the flames. The child was removed to Waipukurau Hospital suffering from terrible burns, and died an hour after admission. At the inquest a verdict of death fi ; 1 shock due to burns was returned. Hyphen Ryan, a shearer, aged 45 years, was found hanged m a shed 011 Starky s property at Oinihi, Wellington. David Moore, a shearer, was drowned in the Waiau River, North Canterbury, while crossing on horseback. The body has not been recovered.