ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13737, 27 March 1915, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

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Auckland, March 26. Margery Evelyne Dewes, aged 24, was killed' in a lift this morning. She was ascending a lift in Hobson Buildings, the lift being in charge of Edward Renner, aged 17. Miss Dewes was getting out, and had one foot on the lift ana the other foot on the landing, when the lift suddenly dropped. She was pinned with her back against the floor. Some minutes elapsed before she was released, and she was then quite dead. The deceased was a daughter of the late 1. E. Dewes. Her mother resides at ?arnell.

Dunedin, March 26,

John Morrison, aged 45 .years, was accidentally killed at Palmerston this morning. He was riding a- bicycle alongside a moving traction-engine which was drawing "a threshing mill. His bicycle skidded, and he was thrown under the wheels of the mill, receiving fatal injuries. .