ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 22728, 2 November 1935, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

MOTORING FATALITY. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, November 1. At the inquest on Mrs Emily Elizabeth Bethune, whose death resulted in a motor accident on Paekakariki Hill on October 20, the verdict of the Coroner was that she died in hospital from internal injuries sustained when a car in which she was a passenger overturned while travelling up Paekakariki Hill. The evidence showed that on a bad corner the driver found that the steering had jambed somehow and the discovery was made too late to prevent the car going over the bank. The car was travelling slowly at the time. DEATH AT WEDDING RECEPTION. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, November 1. While attending a wedding reception at Wellington late last night Robert Allender, aged 65, collapsed and died. Mr Allender was an accountant employed by the Wairarapa Farmers’ Co-op. Association. DYING MAN IN CHURCHYARD. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, November 1. A middle-aged man who was found in the churchyard at St. Thomas’s Church, Union street, to-night apparently suffering from poisoning, died about an hour after being admitted to hospital. He was identified as George William McDonald, aged 50,-a married man of Union street.

BOY’S FATAL SLIDE.

(Per United Press Association.)

Gisborne, November 1.

As the result of sliding down an overhead wire a ten-year-old Maori boy named Reuben Waru was killed at Mangatu this afternoon. The boy’s uncle has a cowshed erected at the top of a hill 200 feet high and milk cans are sent down to the road by means of two overhead lines of fencing wire. The lad left home to do the milking and the body was later discovered against a post at the road end of the wire line. He had evidently slid down and being unable to check his momentum crashed into the post, death being instantaneous.

CYCLIST FATALLY INJURED.

(Per United Press Association.)

Christchurch, November 1,

John Phillip Snook, aged 26, of Woolston, was fatally injured late yesterday afternoon while riding his bicycle in Ferry road when he collided with a car driven by Jack Durant, of Riccarton. It is not clearly known how the accident happened, but the cycle was badly damaged, its back wheel being buckled and the frame twisted.