ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143673, 18 December 1911, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

HOA&DENGL Per PressAAssociation. AUCKLAND, Dcc.lß. A youth, 18 years of age, who'has not been identified, was walking past the new post office in Lower Queen Street this morning, when the gale blew doqin a hoarding, which threw him against’ the rail erected for the protection of pedestrians from street traffic,, and hewas killed instantly, bis neck being broken. A boy crawled from beneath the! hoarding uninjured. A man who was passing had his head cut, but otherwise escaped injury. a waggonerTinjured. GISBORNE, Dec. IS. A waggon, meeting a motor car ot the Hill Road, went over the hank-., Thfc waggoner, J, Robertson, was pinned' dernoath, and had the stump of a leg-,-which had previously been amputated, broken. He was also severely bruised about the face and had his bach ikh» jured. He was removed to the hospital-. A CHILD OVERLAIN, AUCKLAND, Dec, 3& The nine-months-old daughter of Daniel King, a resident of Ponsonhy* was found dead in bed on Sunday morning. The child slept hi a bed with its parents, and, as it was apparently suffocated, it is surmised that it was overlain. LYSOL POISONING, THAMES, Dec. IS- w Charles Peel, aged 43, committed suicide ye.storday hy swallowing a quantity of lysol. At the inquest Dr. Walsh, medical superintendent of Thames Hospital, deprecated the indiscriminate and, unrestricted sale of such deadly poison as lysol, and said he thought the thorities, in the interest-of the pnblifi, should take some action.