ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 22486, 22 January 1935, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

GIRL STRUCK BY CAR.

(Per United Press Association.)

Auckland, January 21.

Betty Ryall, aged seven, was struck by a motor car when running across the road near her home at Dairy Flat last evening. She died of injuries in the Auckland Hospital this morning.

NATIVE CHILD DROWNED.

(Per United Press Association.)

Gisborne, January 21. A native child, Hohepa Tamapataki Reedy, aged three years, fell into the Mata river, at Ruatoria, yesterday, and was drowned.

DROWNED WHILE BATHING.

(Per United Press Association.)

Dunedin, January 2:

Robert Walker, a single man aged 22, was drowned at the Kaik yesterday. He and a friend, James F. Campbell, were bathing on the ocean side of the wharf. Both were outside the breakers.

Campbell made desperate efforts to effect a rescue. Twice his grip on the deceased was broken, and finally when he got the half-conscious man on his back he was washed off to sink immediately.

The body lias not been recovered.

SAWMILL HAND CRUSHED.

(Per United Press Association.)

Te Awamutu, January 21

Archibald G. Drummond, aged 55, married, was fatally crushed at Messrs Smythe Bros, and Bowyer’s sawmill at Arohana, 25 miles from Te Awamutu, this morning. The deceased was unloading a large rimu log off a truck on to the mill skids when it slipped, and before Drummond could jump clear it crushed him, death being instantaneous. He leaves a widow and a son.