ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 53, 30 December 1924, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

RAILWAY SfXlTlpN

""'•'* Per Ffeii Association. Pahiatua, December, 29. 1 An^''ia^(^en^'''6(^i , 'rtsd' ; at' ihe'-Pahia-cua, railway station . this afternoon. Oil'|he .arrival.of th©W ; eUingto'n expresp''William ' "VV,' "Styles', '.•'a. station clerk; '"'ran'' alongside '■■"'with, -object of s and', ,njs.'.,"i K>QT towarjda the train*''and•■in; In. .'endeavour to save himself h© clutched 'at the riul of -.the tender, but was : swept off his feet and dragged' a 'cßnsiderable distance with his body, down between the train and the. platjfcrm.y' driver .applied th©.. brakes immediately. lying by the: rails. H© was transferred to the:h6is>ft.&T.y '...-'■,/'.' '.. ~' ></ , ' • Styles is sufEeiing from a dislocafcioh ■ on) theVbackJoind It is of his skull. '•" „,, •. ' j;. . , lnvercar|;ol, December'39', Martin, aged 20, Vhtte bdth. in,g ! ,ln tlie':o/eti .River on Sunday; •WAS a'noie fotirf een :.ieet; deep to Vi cQme,tb' ; the surface. ' Wli'en the body was recovered. life' wis extinct. The cause o£ death was heart failure.

Th© death of a ,yo un g man named Michael McLean, ;whb w«as admitted to the New Plymouth Hospital , on December 21 as a result of a fall down tlie stairs of a hoarding-house., occurred at 7 p.m. on -Sunday. McLean, who was 30. years; of age, was a single man. He \was born in Scotland and came to New! Zealand about six years ago. He-wasi eiriployed as a labour©/ bv tlie New •Plymouth *Borpugh Council. ■ .. ■■'>'* ■-' '•■ ..