DEATH IN HOSPITAL

Southland Times, Issue 24420, 28 April 1941, Page 4

DEATH IN HOSPITAL

(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, April. 27. Leonard Carney, aged 40, married, died in the Christchurch Public Hospital at 12.50 p.m. today after having been admitted in an unconscious condition about 12 hours before. He was found lying on the road at the confer of Moorhouse avenue and Antigua street half an hour after midnight with injuries to the side of his head. He was taken to the hospital, where he underwent an operation, but he did not regain consciousness before his death. There was no sign of damage to his bicycle, which was standing against the fence near where he was found. CARS COLLIDE A collision between a car driven by Frank Wilkes, of Gore, and a car driven by James Jenkins, of Balclutha, occurred about 10.30 o’clock on Saturday morning at East Gore. Minor damage was done to the cars, but no injury was suffered by the occupants of either vehicle. Wilkes was turning out of Burrows’s Nursery, East Gore, intending to proceed in a northerly direction, and came into collision with Jenkins’s car. YOUTH BREAKS ARM William Cockroft, aged 13 years, of Leet street, broke his right arm while cranking a car yesterday. He was admitted to the Southland Hospital. VICTIMS OF ACCIDENT ' MAKE GOOD PROGRESS The five Invercargill jockeys, apprentices and stable hands, who were admitted to the Southland Hospital suffering from injuries received when a car in which they were driving collided with a goods train at the Kennington railway crossing late on Wednesday evening, are all progressing satisfactorily. Kevin R. Ford, one of the victims, has been discharged from hospital.