ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17174, 26 October 1926, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

MOTOR SALESMAN KILLED. CRASHED INTO POLE. (Per Press Assoclatiofi.j AUCKLAND, last night. A motor-car fatality occurred on the Grafton Road at half-past four this afternoon, a demonstration, car, driven by Kenneth Mynott, motor salesman, aged 25. crashing into a telegraph pole. Mynott sustained severe head injuries and died before admission to hospital. ,T. Taine, the only other occupant of The car, was cut in the face by flying glass and suffered severely from ehoe£ The car was wrecked. Mynott whS married with one child. TRUCK OVERTURNS. YOUNG GIRL LOSES LIFE. DUNEDIN, last night. A sad motor accident at Waitati to-day cast a gloom over the holiday crowds. As a result of a motor truck overturning a young girl named Jessie Hubbard, 17 years of age, lost her life, her brother James, 19, years, being taken to hospital in a critical condition. The differential gear broke on the till and the vehicle got out of control, capsizing at the corner. The girl was killed outright and the young man was picked up unconscious, severely cut and bruised and the back of liis body injured. 1

HOLIDAY MISHAPS. SEVERAL MOTOR ACCIDENTS. WELLINGTON, last night. Several motor car accidents are ieported from the country. No detfuhq'i*.--aro available except that, between Wellington and Levin, a number of cars are off the road. No fatalities or injuries arc reported from this particular quarter. Lionel Clokc, a motor mechanic, residing at Trentham, was walking with Grace Atunro, near Upper Hutt, when lie was struck down by a motor car and sent to hospital. His condition is serious as he has s fractured leg and severe injuries to the head. The girl is suffering from shock.

FOUND IN HARBOR. ELDERLY WOMAN’S DEATH. AUCKLAND, last night. The body of an elderly woman, was found floating in Manukau Harbor this morning, about five miles from Onehunga, by an old man. and his wife, who were out in a flat-bottomed boat. They secured the body by a Ashing line, and informed the police. When the police arrived upon, the scene it was full tide, and the body could not be seen. It is thought that the fishing line was not long enough to allow the body to float upon the surface. A further search will be made at low tide this evening. A woman’s coat, hat and bag were found this morning on the Mangere bridge.