ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 4, 28 October 1924, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

REA RIFLE ACCIDENT.

Napier, October 27

While out pig-hunting near Porangahau, G. D. Patchett, a clerk in the Waipukurau Post Office, noticed a hare running towards him and proceeded to sight his pearifle. As the hare came so close, Patchett changed his mind' and seizing the rifle by the barrel, struck at the animal. The trigger was cocked, and the action caused the rifle to go off, the bullet 1 lodging in Patchett’s abdomen. The’ sufferer was taken to hospital, and 1 late to-night it was reported that, al-| though seriously injured, he is pro-' grossing favorably. JOCKEY INJURED. Hamilton, October 27. Burgess, the rider of Ulva’s Isle was badly injured when his mount fell in the Maiden Hunters’ Steeples, the first event on the programme at to-day’s annual meeting of the Wai-J kato Hunt Club. sawmiller killed. Taumarunui, October 27. A sawmilling hand named Walter Edwin Beresford, aged 58 years, a, married man residing at Waitui, tipped over a log on the tram Bridge between Ngapuke and Waitui v some time on Saturday night, and, falling oil' the bridge, was killed.

SUICIDE AT HAMILTON.

Hamilton, October 28

When the employees of Bond’s Printing Coy. entered the composing' room this morning, they found the principal, Frederick Bond, lying dead on the floor with a gas tube close to his mouth. Deceased, who was aged fifty-one, was a prominent and popular business man, and a keen golfer. He had been in indifferent healtj, for some time.