ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 23025, 20 October 1936, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

MINER DROWNED IN WASHER. (United Press Association.) Greymouth, October 19. James Douglas, aged 40, single, was caught in a rotating slack washer at the Blackball mine and was found drowned this afternoon. DEATH FROM HEAD INJURIES. (United Press Association.) <• Auckland, October 19. Head injuries which proved fatal were suffered by Norman Matthew Bryant, a salesman, single, aged 24, as a result of falling from a tram at Parnell. His parents live at Hamilton, where he was a member of the staff of Tisdalls Ltd., before being transferred to Auckland recently. He won the Waikato badminton doubles championship and was secretary of the Waikato Lawn Tennis Association and the Waikato Badminton Federation. BOY KILLED BY LORRY. (United Press Association.) Christchurch, October 19. Henry Thomas White, aged four, a son of William John White, of Colombo street, was killed instantly early this afternoon when he was struck by_ a motor lorry driven by Henry Alexander Purvis. It is thought that the boy ran round the back of the tram to cross the road, the lorry being unable to stop in time to avoid him. RETURNED SOLDIER FOUND DEAD. (United Press Association.) Westport, October 19. John Stubbs, single, aged 64, a returned soldier, was found dead hanging over a picket fence of a vacant section in Westport this afternoon. He was seen in the morning in Palmerston street and later lying down on the section. .