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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 519, 30 July 1932, Page 19 (Supplement)

Life’s Tragic Side Fifty Three Deaths in Six Months Fifty-three deaths from accident were recorded in the Canterbury and West Coast Districts in the first -six months of this year. Accidents not involving death must have run into thousands. The obvious fact that not one of these accidents or fatalities could have been foreseen would not be worth printing if it did not relate to another fact, not so obvious, but of vital importance. Every accident could have been guarded against in its economic implication of loss and even financial disaster to the individual or those dependent upon him. Many of those upon whom misfortune fell had been wise enough to so guard themselves. They were “Star” subscribers enjoying the benefit of free insurance, and their foresight was graphically emphasised in the illustrations published from time to time in the “Star” of the dozens of cheques paid out under free insurance. Accidents fall from clear skies. Therefore they must be insured against when skies are blue. Afterwards is too late. Set aside a few seconds of cheerful everyday things to sign the registration form that will give you free insurance up to £SOOO with the “Star.” It will be an insurance not only against accident and death, but against the stress of mind that follows fiancial loss, and often clouds the horizon, of the wage-earner in normal times. FILL IN THIS FORM AND POST TODAY 1 I i REGISTRATION FORM To the “Ciiriilcliurclt Star” Registration Department, Box 957, Christchurch. Are you already a Subscriber? Please register me as a regular reader for the benefits of your Free Insurance, in accordance with the full conditions published in the “Christchurch Star,” July 2, 1932. Where a person is not already a regular subscriber, the district agent will be notified to supply, or the paper can be posted direct from this office. (Post with Stamped and Addressed Envelope for Acknowledgement of Registration. Half penny Stamp, if flap turned in-, sufficient). It is free to you merely by signing a coupon If you have already signed and have received the paper regularly every day there is no need to sign again. If*not sign NOW! FRIDAY, JULY 1, TOLL OF FATAL ACCIDENTS. FIFTY-THREE DEATHS. CANTERBURY AND WESTLAND RECORDS. In the first six months of this year fifty-two people in the Canterbury and West Coast provinces have met* their death directly as the result of accident —mainly through motoring mishaps or drowning. Thirty-six of these deaths were during the first three months of the year, but the addition of sixteen names since then has not lowered the monthly average very greatly. The coming of winter and the consequent loss of popularity of the beaches has caused a falling oi'f in the risk of drowning accidents, and there has been ofeiiy one death from this cause during tbe past quarter. A% an offset to this, however, motoring accidents have shfciwn an increase. In the past three months there have been ten fata! accidents through collisions of various tyjvs, as well as a large number of accidents in which people have suffered injury of greater or lesser degree Motor-cars were concerned in nine cases and -motor-cycles in four. Two cyclists and four pedestrians suffered. A noteworthy feature is that in nearly every case cf a motoring fatality, a case has later been brought against one of the participants by the police. Analysis of Position. Ar. analysis cf the reported fatalities in Canterbury and the West .Coast is contained ir. the following table: Urban Outer Area. District. Total. Drowr.iner Motoring «icc*dcnts— Car ar« motorcycle ...... * 5 Car ar.d 3>*.cyclo .2 4 s Car ar.d 'train .. l i Car anc£ pedeatrian* 2 l J .Motor-c-y4!a aM*. • . pedaafcr'.atk .. 1 l Skids. eapairaa, etc. 2 1* 4 Railway 1 3 4 Burns . . ~Z 2 2 Machinery 22 Mountaineering .. —2 2 General ...» 2 0 S 14 * 38 52 This list dtecs not include all the fatalities, as ira several cases the cause of the death ■was not found. Most of the omissions flor this reason are deaths by drowning. Seme * other cater are still under investigation by the police. Burned to Death. The most tragic occurrence of the past quarter was the death of the eight-year-old bqy. Raymond who was burned to death recently in the home of his parents in Harewood. The other deaths lave been of a more or less common-place order. Two men were killed as the results of falls from trees on which they were working, and a third workman was killed by the falling of e. power pole. There have been a number of accidents in which which several people have been injured at the same time, some seriously, but in most case*, rf the type a': have made good recoveries. £2OOO if the reader be killed in a train. £4OOO if man and wife be killed in a train. £SOOO limit if m ore than two people are involved in a train fatality. £IOOO if killed or drowned in a wreck. £IOOO if killed in a lift accident. £250 if killed in a tramcar, ’bus, motor car, or ferryboat plying for hire. £250 if killed in a motor accident, car or side-car driven for pleasure. £l5O if killed on a highway by being run over by a vehicle. £250 if certain accidents involve the loss of two limbs or two eyes. £IOO for the loss of one limb or one eye. £l5O if drowned while boating or bathing. £l5O if killed while taking part in a sporting fixture, or if two limbs, or the sight of both eyes be lost. £250 if burned to death in home or at work. £l5O if killed by bicycle, tricycle or motor-cycle accident. £l5O if killed in the home. £lO if any of these accidents result in certain fractures £5 in the event of fracture to children’s limbs in the home. Temporary Total Disablement PO (per week, for three weeks) Xu