CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18492, 6 February 1930, Page 6

CASUALTIES.

INJURIES PROVE FATAL. By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, February 5. Norman Begg, one of the four men injured in an accident at Measley Beach, Wangaloa, on Sunday, through a motor-car capsizing, died in Balclutha Hospital this evening. Deceased was 18 years of age. William Louden, who was also injured, is still on the seriously ill list, but the other two men who were injured are progressing satisfactorily. MOTOR SMASH. By Telegraph—Press Association. TAUMARUNUI, February 5. As a result of a car going over a bank and falling 250 feet on McGovern’s Hill, near Matiere last night, four people were injured and removed to the Taumarunui hospital. W. Pemalmanche sustained bruises and abrasions on the back, Mrs JDemaLmanche and Miss Demalmanehe bruises and shock, and Stanley Jones, aged 7 years', a fractured humerus. Two other occupants of the car were uninjured. They all had a miraculous escape from death, the‘car landing on its wheels in the Ohura River. SUICIDE AT WANAKA. By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, - February 5. Frederick Reynolds (26), who shot himself with a .303 rifle at West Wan aka, on Friday morning last, died in the Cromwell hospital 24 hours later. Deceased had no relatives in the Dominion. At tfii£ inquest a verdict was returned that deceased met death by a gunshot wound sjelf-inflkited. SAILOR DROWNED. By Telegraph—Pres* Association. AUCKLAND, February 5. Silvanns Pengelly, a. sailor on the warship Lalurnum. was found drowned this morning at Devonport. It is believed that he is the sa-jlor who fell from the ferry Makora on Friday evening. FATAL BURNS. By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, February 5. Receiving severe burns through fall? ing into a tub of caustic soda, a boy named Muridv, two years, living at William Street, died later in hospital.