CASUALTIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3764, 4 May 1926, Page 37

CASUALTIES.

AUCKLAND, April 29. At 8.35 this morning an Onehunga passenger bus collided with a tramcar at Broadway, Newmarket. The bus was full of passengers, and was travelling behind one tram, which stopped to allow school children to alight. The driver oi the bus evidently had trouble with his brakes, and the bus swerved in behind the first tram, and crashed into another tram, which was obscured from his view. The bus was badly damaged, and three passengers were injured, but. only one (G. L. Gunson) badly. Gunson is in hospital with a fracture of a small bone in the AUCKLAND, April 2D. Misi Catherine May Smyth, aged 31 years, received fatal injuries when running to catch a tramcar in Patteson street, Freeman’s Bay, at 7.30 to-night. Miss Smyth received terrible injuries to her head and a compound fracture of the right leg just above the ankle. Death was almost instantaneous. Miss Smyth and her younger sister, Annie, were running across from Franklin road to catch a Herne Bay tram standing in Patteson street. Miss Annie Smyth was in the lefid and cleared the motor which was coming from the city, driven by J. Brady, a taxi driver. Miss Catherine Smyth was struck heavily and was carried a few yards before being thrown clear. Mr Brady at once wheeled his car round and returned to the scene of the accident. Miss Smyth was thrown heavily on the concrete road, and although a St. John ambulance was on the scene within three minutes she was already post succour. Miss Smyth had resided with her parents at 8 Collingwood street, Ponsonby, and had left her home only a few moments before the fatal accident. AUCKLAND, April 29. Gordon Munro, aged 17 years, a post office cadet, was struck by an engine while crossing the railway line at Ellerslie station to-night. Ho sustained a fractured skull and injuries to his back, from which he succumbed shortly after admission to the hospital. AUCKLAND, April 29. A Maori girl named Maata Tipene, aged 15 years, banged herself at Mangamuka, near Rawene. She had Joined a concert party, and had asked her father for a new coat, which he refused o:i account of his being out of work. The girl became sullen, and refused to speak. She plaltpd a ror>e of flax and hanged hei-Belf with it. Tne jury returned a verdict of suicide. WANGANUI, April 17. A man named Frederick Trowern was picked up in an unconscious condition in Francis street this morning. It appears

that the injured man, who is a butcher by occupation, was on his way to work when a steel he was carrying caught in the spokes of his bicycle, precipitating him heavily to the ground. The sufferer was conveyed to the public hospital, where he lies in a semi-conscious condition. WANGANUI. April 27. Last evening a motor lorry driven by Mr Davies, of llalcombe, came into collision with a motor cycle ridden by Edward Rosser on the Onepuhi Bridge. Both were negotiating the structure from opposite ends. Rosser sustained a broken leg. WELLINGTON, April 28. Douglas M’Kay, aged 17 years, sustained concussion of tne brain while practising football at Victoria Park. He was removed to the hospital in an unconscious condition W hen James Storry, aged 20 years, a single man, living at Evansdale, was starting a Dennis lorry on the main highway yesterday morning he was run into by a motor car and his knee was injured, btorry, who was employed by the Public Works Department, was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital at 9.35 a.m. Severe injuries to his head were sustained by William Keith, a telegraph linesman, when he fell from a pole in lloray place yesterday. He was admitted to the hospital at 3.50 p.m., and his name was placed on the seriously ill list. NELSON, April 29. Bruce Graham, aged 26 years, residing at Umukuri (Riwaka), was handling a shot gun a few days ago when the weapon exploded, the charge passing through his left arm. The injured man was conveyed to the Nelson public hospital. CHRISTCHURCH, April 29. Struck by the Belfast working men’s train, which was coming into town last evening, a taxi driven by C. Macintosh was turned completely round at the Antigua street crossing. - The driver escaped uninjured, and the car was damaged only about the front wheels and the bonnet. The locomotive shifted the fore part and threw the whole car clear, slewing it right round in the opposite direction. CHRISTCHURCH. April 29. Nelson Corrie Early, a single man, aged 39 years, while cycling home last evening, was knocked down and killed by a New Brighton tram. INVERCARGILL, April 29. An inquest was held at Invercargill regarding the Dipton motor smash on April 6, when Alexander M’Kenzie and Thomas Price (the driver) were fatally injured. John William Murphy, the third occupant of the car, who escaped with slight injuries, stated that the car was travelling at from 30 to 35 miles an hour. When it reached a stretch of loose gravel the back of the car swung round, and it capsized. He removed M'Kenzie from underneath the car, but he died in a few minutes. Medical aid was promptly summoned. The police stated that the brakes appeared to have been applied, and the front wheels were locked. The left near wheel was damaged, and the tyre punctured. The car was practically new, and was apparently travelling so fast that the driver could not keep it on the road. A verdict of accidental death was returned.