ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 22491, 28 January 1935, Page 4

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

STRUCK BY TRAIN.

(Per United Press Association.) Levin, January 25. Believed to have been struck by the northbound New Plymouth express at noon yesterday, an elderly Maon, Kanihauia Tungahuru, met his death at a private railway crossing half a mile north of Manakau township. The body was discovered by the driver of a mixed goods train an hour and a half "He was hard of hearing and possibly walked directly into the path of the train without hearing its approach.

CHILD KILLED. (Per United Press Association.) Hastings, January 25. A fatal accident occurred last evening at 8.30 when Helen Carter, the 12-year-old daughter of Thomas Carter, of Hastings, was knocked off her bicycle by a car driven by A. J. Loder. The accident occurred near Whakati, where the deceased was spending a holiday with friends, while she was riding in company with other children. It is stated that Loder’s vision was affected by the brilliant lights of another car. MAORI CHILD’S DEATH. (Per United Press Association.) Gisborne, January 25. An inquest was opened by the District Coroner this morning into the death of a Maori child Aged 2 years 10 months under an anaesthetic in the Cook Hospital on Wednesday. After medical evidence had been given that the cause of death was toxaemia, the inquest was adjourned.