ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 23255, 19 July 1937, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

SUDDEN DEATH The Invercargill police have been advised that Joseph Alan Bremner, aged 69, died suddenly at Pembroke on Saturday morning. No inquest will be necessary. MAN’S LEG FRACTURED Hugh Lee, a married man residing in Bowmont street, was admitted to the Southland hospital on Saturday evening suffering from a fracture of the right leg. He was crossing Conon street when he was knocked down by a motor-car. CYCLIST INJURED Suffering abrasions to the head and body, Robert Fotheringham, a married man of Makarewa, was admitted to the Southland hospital on Saturday evening for treatment. While riding a bicycle he was knocked down by a motor-car. MAN STRUCK BY CAR (United Press Association) NAPIER, July 18. Struck by a car on the Napier-Has-tings main highway on Saturday evening, Thomas Humphries, of Bayview, is now in the Memorial Hospital, Hastings, in a dangerous condition. While walking along the road he was struck by a car driven by Douglas Petrowski, of Hastings, and sustained a fractured skull. It was raining at the time. CAR PLUNGES OVER BANK (United Press Association) NAPIER, July 18. Two nurses, Misses Macdonald and Crawford, and Messrs Douglas Macdonald and H. Gibson were injured when their car plunged over a 40-foot bank. They were taken to the Napier Public Hospital. Their injuries are not considered serious. The car was wrecked. FOUND DEAD IN BATH (United Press Association) NAPIER, July 18. Joan Kane, a domestic, was found dead in a bath late on Saturday evening. She was employed by Henry Cotton Sproule, a solicitor of Napifer, who made the discovery. An inquest was opened this morning. Evidence of identification was given by her father, Joseph Michael Kane, and the inquest was adjourned sine die. MOTOR-CYCLIST KILLED ■ (United Press Association) HASTINGS, July 17. When a motor-cycle he was riding was struck by a motor-lorry near the Whakatu freezing works last evening, Leslie Clyde Boyce, aged 23 years, a married man, with one child, was killed instantly. The lorry was driven by Russell William Spencer, aged 17. RAILWAY WORKMAN KILLED (United Press Association) BLENHEIM, July 17. The first fatal accident on the South Island Main Trunk railway construction works occurred yesterday afternoon when Augustus Oscar Cottington, aged 48 years, married, of Blenheim, a labourer, was killed instantly when he was run over by a rake of trucks conveying spoil from the tunnel at Ohau bluff to the tip on the seashore. He was engaged in repairing the rail track and the noise of the air compressor in the vicinity prevented him from hearing the approach of the trucks. His body, badly mangled, was removed to Kaikoura. YOUNG MAN’S TRAGIC DEATH WANGANUI, July 18. The body of Arthur John Meyer, aged 27, was found by his brother in a woolshed on their parents’ property near Raetihi this afternoon. Deceased entered the shed with the intention of shooting sparrows with a small-bore shotgun and 10 minutes after a shot was heard his brother made the tragic discovery.