HEAVY ACCIDENT TOLL.
TWELVE LIVES LOST. SEVERAL DROWNINGS. While Yuletide for the big majority was a festival of happiness and merrymaking, to the homes of some it brought tragedy and sorrow. No less than, twelve persons throughout the Dominion over the holiday week-end lost their lives in accidents of vari-
ous kinds. Three men and a woman were killed, and a boy was injured, by trains at level-crossings. One of these accidents occurred in Auckland, and was reported on Saturday, and two in Otago. Two young men were drowned in Wellington Harbour owing" to the capsizing of a yacht. A youth was drowned while bathing in the Manawatu River, and an elderly man was drowned in shallow water in Caroline Bay, Timaru. Alotor accidents claimed two lives, a woman being knocked down and killed in Christchurch, and a man being suffocated which a motor car capsized near Norsewood, Hawke's Bay.
A young marine from H.M.S. Diomede fell from the ship's gangway on Sunday evening and was fatally injured.
A Maori boy was thrown from his horse in Poverty Bay and his skull was fractured.
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Thames Star, Volume LXI, Issue 17313, 28 December 1927, Page 5
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