WEEK-END ACCIDENTS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 88, 23 March 1931, Page 7

WEEK-END ACCIDENTS

FIVE PERSONS DROWNED MISHAP IN MANAWATU RIVER PALMERSTON N., March 22. Meagre details are to hand of five bves being lost through a drowning fatality in the Mauawatu River this morning. A picnic party of eleven in a motor launch was going up the river, when 14 miles from Foxton and near Kopotorua they struck n snag which practically tore the whole of the bottom of the boat out. Five of the party are reported to have been drowned. Four bodies have been recovered. Mr Neville, traffic inspector at Foxton, and owner of the launch, was saved, together with his wife and throe children. Those drowned were: Mr Honrickson, of Foxton, Ills wife and sou, aged 9 years. A Maori named Hapi and his son. MAN AND WIFE INJURED CYCLE AND CAR COLLIDE CHRISTCHURCH, March 22. W. A. Guy and his wife were seriously injured this morning when a motor cycle on which they were jriding collided with a motor car driven by J, Hanafin, chemist. The motor bicycle was dragged under the car for some distance and smashed against a fence. Guy had his head, face and ears injured, and is in a serious condition. His wife, who was riding pillion, is suffering from bead and shoulder injuries and shock, but her condition is not so serious.

Geoffrey Sinclair received a bullet in his right thigh while on a shooting expedition at Kairaki this morning when another nine’s gun was accidentally discharged. His condition is not serious.

CYCLIST KILLED

STRUCK BY MOTOR TRUCK

MASTERTO*N, March 22

Frank Walker, a married man with one child, of Feathevston, was accidentally killed on the Tauherenikau Road at about 8 o'clock on Saturday night, when he'was knocked off his bicycle by a motor truck driven by Thomas Black, of Featherston. An inquest will bo held to-morrow.