FALL FROM MOTOR-CYCLE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 110, 11 May 1936, Page 8

FALL FROM MOTOR-CYCLE

YOUNG MAN SERIOUSLY HURT (P«»r Press Association. I WELLINGTON, May 10. i 1.. Grimwood. a young man resident ’at the corner of Innes Road and Rut land Street, fell from a motor-cycle at 1 Leightfield Beach this afternoon when j the cycle struck a patch of loose sand. ■ He fractured both legs and a collarbone and suffered internal injuries. His condition is serious. KILLED AT PLAY YOUING LYTTELTON (.IRE [ f’pr Press Association. I CHRISTCHURCH, May 9. I A girl. Medley Phillips, aged 12, I whose parents live in Canterbury jStreet, Lyttelton, was killed in the I Lyttelton railway yard Ills yesterday afternoon. ■ With her brother, Clive Phi’Jip?, aged , about 1”. sb.-, had entered the loco- ■ motive yard at the mar of the LytI felton station. The two children ap- ) parentjv were playing about a wagon which was standing there when the ' boy. according to his statement, pulled a pin which secures t’he door and the 'heavv steel door fell forward, striking the girl on the heal. Death occnned i about twenty njuutef after the accident. MOTOR-CAR OVER BANK MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED j Per Press Association. ) GREYMOUTH, May b). i Alex Renwick, aged 39. married, of Reefton. suffered head injuries and I concussion ns a result of a car Tunning * over a bank and turning several somersaults while proceeding from Grey- ' ntmiih to Keetton last night. Renwick ' was admitted to th.- Grey Hospital in a serious condition. CRASH INTO CREEK MOTOR-CYCLIST b DEATH « Per Press Association. ) G I.S BORNE. May I While Mr. -I. C. Graham, a welli known Poverty Bay farmer, was ridiing along the Waimata Road this 'morning in company with Mr. -I. Alexander. agricultural adviser of Kempthorne Prosser’s staff, Auckland, Mr, .Graham told the visitor of an acciIdem that had occurred near a dangerions bridge some lime ago, when a ■party cf Maoris went over in a car land had a marvellous escape from •death. i The car was stoppc-J and the visitor I looked o\ er ami said that he could :see a motor-cycle and a man’s body Jy’ing in lhe creek below. They hur Iriedly descended and found that the (b.idy was that vf losah Harvey Wat ;;on. head shepherd o.i the Maka Stallion. A motor-cycle and side-car were lying close by. i The bridge has no rails, and it appears evident that the miter wheel of II he side-car must have gone over the side and the complete vehicle capsized 'down the straight ci iff about 25 feet limo tht creek. Watton w «as 25 or 2G I years of age and unmarried. IL[parents reside at Te Kakaia. FOUND ON RAILWAY LINE 1 WIDOWS FATAL INJURIES | Per Press Association. | AUCKLAND. May 10. Pound lying unconscious on the railIway line at I’apatoetoe station about 16..91 p.m. on Saturday, Mrs. Louie Thompson, aged 61, a widow, employed as a housekeeper at Papatoet »e, died in hospital a few hours later. E» 'he nature of her injuries it is con•U'.l?d Mrs. Thompsc-u was struck by

an engine and thrown clear of the lines. The first indication of anything untoward having occurred w-j.s the discovery of a woman's shoe on the island platlorm by the guard of a train due to* leave Papatoetoe for the city. He reported the matter to th? stationmaster, Mr. A. N. Bassett, who made a search at. the northern end of j the platform, where the shoe was I found. Mrs. Thompson was found lying between the platform and ’he near line of the main south track. She had suffered severe head injuries. So far as has been ascertained, no one saw the mishap c»r can throw any light on the cause of deceased’s death. ! Mrs. Thompson bad travelled to Auckland on her usual weekly visit to friends in the city, leaving Papatoetoe about mid-day. Ji, was her custom to return on the s.l<i train from Auckland, which reaches Papatoetoe, en route for Papakura. at 5.42. No other train passes over lhe track where the deceased was found between 5.42 and the time she was discovered on the line. The engine of the train due to leave Papatoetoe for the cit-v at 6.33 does, however, traverse this track. The discovery of a woman's hat on a track about 160 yards north of lhe spot where Mrs. 'Thompson was found was made this morning. It is thought lhe j unfortunate woman may have been jthe track for her hat in the darkness J and had been knocked down by an en- , jg-n» t’j it proceeded over the ioop line. i STRUCK BY TIMBER I ; MAX'S FATAL INJURIES I | Per Press A*«ociation 1 AUCKLAND. May 10. Struck by a piece of timber at the Otahuhu railway workshops on Saturday morning, a wood macninist. Alexander M*cJ.eod O'Brien, aged IT. married, of I’e Papapa, received iu‘.ernaJ injrr■es which subsequently proved fatal. CYCLIST’S DE\TH I COLLISION WITH LORRY [ Per Pres? Association | AUCKLAND. Mav 10. Fatal injuries were suffet?. 1 b.v Harry \V. Williamson, a marrird man. employed by the Public. Wotlo Depart- . ment at Gordontoo. when a bicycle he I was riding was involved >n a collision with a motor-lorry on the Cambridge Road at Hillcrest last evening. He was admitted to the Waikato Hospital suffering from grave head ’’juries, but Itlied this morning.