ACCIDENTS IN WELLINGTON

Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1927, Page 11

ACCIDENTS IN WELLINGTON

RECORD NUMBER ON SATURDAY. By Telegraph;—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Nineteen cases, including medical and ’ accident, were dealt with by the Wellington free ambulance on Saturday, this being the greatest number of calls on the service for any one day since its inception a few weeks ago. Suffering from injuries to his hip through falling on the deck of the steamer Waitaki, berthed alongside the wharf at Miramar, an able-bodied seaman, William Soutar, was taken to the hospital at about mid-day on Saturday. Soutar, whose home is at 9 Huia Street, Devonport, Auckland, is making satisfactory .progress. A scuffle between two men in Courtenay Place at about seven o’clock on Saturday evening, resulted in one of ; them, A. J. Scharny, receiving a lacerated wound at the back of his head, this being caused when he fell heavily to the ground. Scharny is a fellmonger by occupation, and lives at 32 I’atanga Crescent. His opponent was removed by the police to the Jock-np. Shortly before midnight on Saturday a young man named John Edwaid Sullivan was picked up at Northland in an unconscious condition. There was no sign of injuries on the body, and the cause of his condition is not known. To-night he had shown little improvement.

Poisoning as a result of taking nitric acid was responsible for the admission of a young man named Bruce Clarke to the hospital at about 7.15 p.m. on Saturday. Clarke is a carpenter residing at 52 Overton Terrace, and to-night his condition was serious.