CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 24 June 1926, Page 6

CASUALTIES.

FALL HAS FATAL RESULTS. iiy 'i'cJct Press Association. AUCKLAND; June 23. Severe head injuries were sustained by E. S. Postlewaight, au employee at •• •>*..» mu osierday afternoon, when he slipped from a stack of sugar , and fell a distance of 12 feet. A launch was requisitioned, and the injured man was brought to Auckland. An operation was performed, Tut he succumbed at 4 o’clock this morning in hospital.

GORED BY BULLOCK. WANGANUI, June 23. A middle-aged man named Lancaster, k seaman on the s.s. Gale, was badly gored by a bullock while cattle were being loaded on to the ship to-night. ' re- 1 • luce s-.ueii; Lancaster endeavouring to'help his mates, ' ’ ,; u.< .i ss-'v. liinr? pr.q. The other men escaped. Lancaster, who was hoisted from the hold in a. sling was taken to hospital. Flo -was gored in the thigh and arm, losing a lot- of blood, and was _ generally knocked about. He is not in immediate danger. FATAL COLLISION. By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, June 23. A bout 11.30 last niglit, outside the gates of Cornwall Park, a motor cycle, on which two young men ivero returning home from a dance, collided with a sanitary service cart. Gwen Brav (19,). a resident ol One. humta. who was pillion ruling was severely injured. Frederick ! Icmn'r-inan (20). who was driving, escaped with abrasions. Hr v di*’d <’i: {lm v,;ay to hospital in tin ambulance.