ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16230, 3 January 1927, Page 14

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

NINE-YEAB-OLD BOY DROWNED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A nine-year-old boy, Patrick Albeit Tuohy, who was playing around the Lyttelton ferry wharf in Wellington shortly after 4 p.m. yesterday, fell into • the*water and was drowned. It ha& not Men clearly established how he got into the water. He was wearing a Dathirig suit and apparently tried to swim to safety. Respiration was tried unsuccessfully when the body was recovered. DEATH PROM FRACTURED SKULL CHRISTCHURCH, this day. ~ At 9.30 o'clock on New Year's Eve Frank Robert Roder was found in an unconscious condition at the foot of a flight of stairs leading into the basement of the Lyttelton fire brigade station. H* was removed to his home, but a medical examination showed a fracture Of the skull. RodSer was taken to the Christchurch hospital, where he died at 11L20 o'clock on Saturday morning. Deceased was single and a waterside worker by occupation. INJUEED IN OAR ACCIDENT ■ DUNEDIN. last night. Roy Anderson, a single man, was admitted to hospital at 1.10 a.m. on New Year's Day as the result of being injured in a motor accident. He was severely injured on the head and his condition is reported as 6erious. He is unable to give particulars of the accident,- having been picked up uncon scions in the street rEACTURED SKULL IN DIVE AUCKLAND, last night. Percy Warbrick, flO, married, residing in Auckland, sustained a fracture of the skull through diving on to submerged rocks at Rangitoto Island yesterday and died in the hospital this afternoon. BABY DIES AT SEA > AUCKLAND, last night. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Stewart, of Wellington, died at sea during the voyage of the Aorangi from Vancouver. The body was buried at sea. WOMEN'S BODIES FOUND WELLINGTON, last night. The body of Emily Agnes Owen, 46, married, a resident of Petone, was found In the harbor at 5 o'clock this morning. ,A young.-woman, 22. named Douglas, was drowned in the Upper Hutt river at Maori Bank, a spot dangerous for bathing.. A lifebuoy had been placed in the vicinity, but had been removed. OAR FALLS DOWN BANK WELLINGTON. last night William Wardock and his two daughters, Berle, 6, . and Ruth, 18 months, •••re admitted t6"bjjispital injured as the result of a motor-car going over a 30ft. bank naar Vogeltown.