ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10339, 10 September 1926, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

DIED OF HEART FAILURE. Electric Telegraph-—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. At the inquest to-day on George Rome Hollway, Canterbury College engineering student, who collapsed and died while climbing Castle Hill, Craigieburn, with the College survey party yesterday, medical evidence showed the deceased was suffering from dearrangement of the heart and had an inward goitre. The coroner returned a verdict according^’. MAN DISAPPEARS. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. On the morning of August 11, Mr William George Haines, builder, of Riccartou road, left his home suddenly. Since then nothing has beerf seen or heard of him. Mr Haines left a message saying that he intended going to Sumner and that he had intended to take his own life. If this had been done his body is almost certain to have been found. He gave no other leason for his sudden disappearance. DIES OF INJURIES. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Mr Arthur Augustus Geeson, single, aged 21, carpenter, employed at the Petone railway workshops, and residing at Lower Hutt died at the Wellington hospital from injuries to his head and chest through being crushed between a railway waggon and the door of the suction gas plant which was undergoing alterations. TOP Of HEAD BLOWN OFF. HAWERA,- Last Night. Samuel. Prout, of Inaha, was found dead this morning in a shed near iris house. The top of his head was blown off, and there was a discharged shotgun alongside the deceased. He was 58 years o? age, married, and had four children. He had been m poor health for some time past.