ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
THROWN FROM HORSE
(By Telegraph. Press Association.) MATAMATA, Friday.
A young man named Edward J. S. Hockey, an employee of the Sunny Park Cheese Company, was killed last night at Te Poi, Matamata. He was thrown when riding a young hors'e, and sustained concussion, from which he died in Matamata private hospit'al seven hours later after an operation.
INFANT SUFFOCATED.
AUCKLAND, Friday.
An inquest was held this morning at Devonport into the circumstances surrounding the death of an infant son of William and Florence Charlotte Harris.
Evidence was given showing that the child was born on September 17th of this year, and had been in good health since birth. At 3 p.m. yesterday it was laid in a perambulator by the mother while she was attending to her household duties. Fifty minutes later, hearing a feeble cry, she went to the door of the room and looked in. She concluded that the child was still asleep; but when she went ten minutes later she found it lying face downwards and life was extinct. Dr. Charles Rout was called in but without avail. The Coroner returned a verdict that death was due to accidental suffocation while lying in a perambulator.
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Waipa Post, Volume XX, Issue 1180, 10 December 1921, Page 5
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