ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 22766, 17 December 1935, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

DROWNED WHILE SWIMMING. (Per United Press Association.) Whangarci, December 16. R. F. Miller, aged 25, a member of the Umawera Public Works camp, seven miles from Rawene, was drowned while swimming in the Orira river yesteiday. He, had been in the Dominion only 13 weeks, coming from Melbourne. WIDOWER’S DEATH. (Per United Press Association.) Taihapc, December 16. John Coulter, aged 53, a widower, with a grown-up son and daughter, a buyer for the Wellington Meat Export Company, was killed late last night while returning to Taihapc from Palmerston North when his car went over a steep bank near Utiku, six miles south of Taihape. The car landed on the railway line, then bounded over. Coulter fell out on the line and evidently was dead or unconscious. Three trains passed over the line during the night, but the body was not seen till the driver of a goods train from Marton, due at Taihapc at 6.30 a.m., saw it lying on the side of the line in a ditch badly mutilated by the wheel of a train. The inquest to-day was adjourned after identification. BOY KILLED BY LORRY. (Per United Press Association.) Wanganui, December 16. When he ran under the back wheel of a passing motor lorry at Maxwell, near Wanganui to-day, Raymond Bubb, aged 21- years, was killed instantly. The child was a son of Mr F. S. Bubb, travelling showman, and the accident occurred on the road near Maxwell hall. CHILD RUNS INTO LORRY. (Per United Press Association.) Masterton, December 16. Noel Robert Ewing, the four-year-old son of Mr and Mrs E. J. Ewing, of Carterton, was knocked down by a lorry this afternoon and admitted to the Masterton Hospital with serious head injuries. The child apparently ran into the side of the lorry while endeavouring to cross the road. CHILD FATALLY INJURED. (Per United Press Association.) Christchurch, December 16. P. Campbell, aged five years, only daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Campbell, the well-known racing trainer, was fatally injured when she ran out in front of a lorry at Sockburn late this afternoon. She was taken to the Lewisham hospital where she died shortly after from head injuries.