DEATH IN BRAZIL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 201, 26 August 1936, Page 7

DEATH IN BRAZIL

e YOUNG AUCKLAND y MISSIONARY e s (Per Press Association) " AUCKLAND, Aug. 25. p | Advice has been received'in Auckland of the death in Brazil of Harold . I Stanley Smith, a young Aucklander, who was working under the Unevangelised Fields Mission. Mr Smith, who was a son of Mi and Mrs W. F. Smith, of Grey Lynn, was a member of the Baptist Tabernacle and went t 3 South America in 1934. His base was at Para, near the mouth of the Amazon River and his death occurred on Sunday from malignant tertian fever. Only g month ago Mr Smith was married there to Marjorie Coward, anothei member of the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle. STATION HAND MISSING j r 1 BELIEVED TO BE DROWNED ? J [Per Press Association] f GISBORNE, Aug. 25. Toki Paringatoi, employed on the 1 Hoia station at Hicks Bay, is believI ed to have been drowned in the * Karakatuwhero on Sunday, his horse being found with a muddy saddle on t Monday morning. Search is being made for the body. s DEATH OF A BOY CORONER’S VERDICT [Per Press Association] WELLINGTON, Aug. 25. At the inquest on Desmond Rowntree, aged 15, the coroner (Mr. Gilbertson) found that death was due from peritonitis when he fell on a broom handle which entered his body. The accident occurred while the boy o was sweeping a floor in Turnbull and s Jones’ warehouse. n a £ FOUND DEAD ON ROAD s e k VICTIM OF MOTOR ACCIDENT d n [Per Press Association] c BLENHEIM. Aug. 25. r Hubert A. Wright, aged 26, single, s a son of Thomas Wright, Main Street, g was found dead at a fairly unfre- ■ quented corner in the borough about n 6 p.m. this evening, apparently as i - result of a collision with a car. / o youth named Arthur Smith, driver o( o a butcher van, reported to the polic< e finding deceased lying on the road s Apparently there were no witnessei n of the accident. f