ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 12 January 1922, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Per Press Association—Copyright. TOLL OF THE ROAD. HAMILTON. January 11. A motor cycle ridden by David Noakes, 30, single, employed in the Electrical Branch of the Public Works Department, skidded in the sand on the Hamilton-Cambridge road and crashed into a motor lorry coming from the opposite direction. Noakes, seriously injured, was removed to the hospital, where lie died. Two passengers inside the ear were not injured. SURFING FATALITY. AUCKLAND, January 11. George Higgott. 21, was drowned while surf bathing an Muriwai beach on the West Coast yesterday. He was well out in the surf, accompanied by a younger brother, Hartley, when a big breaker caught the two in the backwash, sweeping them further out. Tho danger was observed, and a fishing line was thrown out to them. Hartley wound the line round his body and made a game effort to reach his brother, who was further out, and threw’ the end of the line to within five yards of the struggling man, who could not reach it. He was carried away by a stron undercurrent. Hartley’s strength failed, and he was drawn in by the line and lifted out unconscious. Efforts to recover the body of George Higgott failed. BODY RECOVERED. FOXTON, January 11. The body of the girl Laura Henskill, drowned while bathing on Sunday, was recovered last night. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death by drowning was returned.