WORKMAN RECEIVES FATAL INJURIES

Southland Times, Issue 23406, 13 January 1938, Page 6

WORKMAN RECEIVES FATAL INJURIES

FALL FROM TROLLEY ON RAILWAY LINE (United Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, January 12. Fatal injuries were received by Leslie K. Evans, of Hawera, aged about 40, when he fell from a trolley on which he was travelling with several other workmen on the Waitara branch railway line this afternoon. He was admitted to the New Plymouth Hospital, where he died tonight. Besides a fractured neck, he received injuries to his head and face. YOUNG BOY MISSING SINCE MONDAY DUNEDIN, January 12. Allan Mowat, aged six, a son of Mr and Mrs W. Mowat, Balclutha, has been missing since Monday morning, and it is feared that he has been drowned. He left his home about 9 o’clock in company with a little girl belonging to a neighbouring family. They evidently went to play on the sand heap at the Clutha county gravel drag near the river by the railway yard. The little girl returned to her home about 12.30, but the boy was not with her. The parents were under the impression that he was at another neighbour’s place, to which he was in the habit of going to play, and were not concerned when he did not return for lunch. When he did not appear for tea, hqwever, they became anxious, and inquiries were made. It was then ascertained that he had been at the sand heap. A search was immediately made, and the boy’s footsteps were traced to the edge of the river, and there were signs of where he had evidently slipped over the bank into the water. His sandals were found a few feet away from the water’s edge. Dragging operations have been fruitless. CYCLIST DIES OF INJURIES AFTER COLLISION AUCKLAND, January 12. Injuries from which he died in hospital four hours later were suffered by a cyclist, Albert William Hyde, aged 61, a married man of Mount Albert and a retired school teacher, when his bicycle came into collision with a motor-car at an intersection in Dominion road last evening. Hyde was flung over the radiator of the car, his head striking the windscreen and his skull being fractured.