ROAD FATALITY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 253, 25 October 1937, Page 8

ROAD FATALITY

TWO MEN KILLED BUS GOES OVER BANK ELEVEN MEN INJURED [ Per Press Association. ] DUNEDIN, Oct. 24. A bus with 12 territorials proceeding from Roxburgh to Queenstown to a territorial camp, went over a 50ft. bank on a bad bend of Kawarau Gorge Road, between Cromwell and Queenstown about 11 miles from Cromwell. The driver, Kenneth Robb, was killed and another passenger, Mr Kinaston, was seriously injured and died later in the Cromwell Hospital. All the others are suffering from shock and injuries.

A private car was on the scene shortly after the accident and though Robb was alive he died within a few minutes of the accident. The accident occurred about 1.30 p.m. yesterday. The bus was smashed to matchwood. FELL INTO HARBOUR SEAMAN IN HOSPITAL AUCKLAND INCIDENT [ Per Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, Oct. 24. As a result of a wild skirmish on board the steamer Hertford, when two deckhands fell about 35ft. into the harbour, one of the seamen, Frederick Gosling, aged 17, suffered concussion and was admitted to hospital. It was while a friend of the injured man, John Maiien, was attempting to prevent him from diving into the harbour for a swim that the two overbalanced and fell into the water. Dazed from the experience the men were rescued, but not without difficulty, although a line was immediately thrown to them from the ship. When Gosling failed to reach the line the third officer, Mr J. Cree, jumped overboard to assist both men to tne ship’s side. Gosling was taken to hospital.