ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 21606, 19 January 1932, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

SCHOOL TEACHER’S DEATH. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, January 18. A school teacher, Gwendoline Constance Annie Dunckley, aged 23, was found dead this morning in her uncle’s house, where she was spending a few days on holiday. She was engaged to be married, but her fiance died on Saturday in Auckland Hospital. At the inquest, to-day a verdict that she committed suicide by gas poisoning was returned. IXJRRY GOES OVER BANK. Hastings, Janaury 18. A Maori named Ri Kaurauria of Oringi, near Dannevirke, met with a serious accident while driving a lorry down Te Aute hill on his way from Dannevirke towards Hastings this afternoon. The lorry skidded in loose shingle and went over a bank, turning over several times. Kaurauria, who was by himself, managed to scramble out just before the lorry caught fire. He was found by another motorist on his way to Palmerston who first noticed the smoke, then saw the victim lying beside the lorry. He was unconscious and when medical assistance came, was found to have several broken ribs, one of which had penetrated a lung. His condition to-night is as well as could be expected under the circumstances. MISSING SINCE 1918. Auckland, January 18. The circumstances of the death of a man who was missed from his home in February, 1918 and whose remains were found on a farm at Wade Head near Silverdale last month, formed the subject of an inquest by the Coroner, Mr Hunt. The remains were identified by a watch and gun as those of Peter Hansen, aged 57, a native of Denmark who had been in New Zealand for about 10 years at the time of his death and who farmed property in the locality.