CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18536, 5 April 1930, Page 19 (Supplement)

CASUALTIES.

MAN MISSING. By Telegraph—Press Association. OAMARU, April 4. Anxiety is felt concerning the whereabouts of George Blackwell, a railway servant, aged 38, who left home yesterday morning and failed to return. Mr Blackwell had just returned from Hanmer, where he was treated for nerve trouble. The police are making , a diligent search. ACCIDENTAL DEATH. By Telegrsrh—Pr«s* Association. WANGANUI, April 4. Returning a verdict that Robert Bruce McNae, aged Ah years, succumbed from a fractured skull received as a result of being struck on Monday by a car driven by Laurence Milton Julian, a motor service driver, the Coroner today said the evidence indicated that the driver did all that was possible to avoid the accident, which was caused by inadvertence of the child. FOUND DROWNED. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON. April 4. A body was found on the beach at Muritai this afternoon, which at first was thought to be that of Father Falloon, who has been missing since March 19th. It had, however, been in the water not more than 24 hours, and apparently was that of a man between 6U and 70 years of age. At present it is unidentified. INFANT FATALLY CRUSHED. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 4. A Maori boy, aged one year, died in the Auckland Hospital from a fracture of the skull, caused through being caught in a milking machine belt on the farm of his father, William Morgan, of Pukekohe. BUSH WORKER KILLED. By Telegraph—Pres* Association ROTORUA, April 4. John Henry Sunnex (22), single, bush worker, employed by the National Timber Company, Ngongotaha, was killed by a hauler rope in the bush. The hauler was taking a heavy angle pull, when the block broke. The rebound of the rope from a intervening tree struck the deceased, and killed him instantly.