ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19463, 31 December 1934, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

KICKED BY A HORSE. .AUCKLAND, Monday. Through being kicked by a horse, a farm labourer, Mr ,J. A. 'King, aged 39, of Pukekohe West, suffered a fracture of an arm, and fractures, of ribs. BOY ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. MASTERTON Sunday. A 13-year-old lad named Erie Wilson, a son of Mr. William Wilson, of Wangaehu, was admitted to the hospital yesterday in a fairly serious condition as the result of the accidental discharge of a pea-rifle he was carrying. The bullet entered his groin and has not yet been .removed.

ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. ‘YOUNG WOMAN SUCCUMBS. NELSON, Monday. Tbs death has occurred of Winifred 'Kathleen Rowling, aged I'9, the daughter of Mr Sydney Rowling, of Riwaka, as the result of the accidental discharge of a pearille last week which she took to drive away starlings from the house. She slipped on the steps, and the rille discharged, the bullet entering her abdomen. FATAL FALL FROM CYCLE. YOUNG MAN SUCCUMBS. DUNEDIN, Saturday, Gordon Alexander Leslie (22). single, sustained fatal injuries in a fall from a motor-cycle on the llighrlil'f Road lasi evening. He was found lying on the road, and died while cn route to the hospital. The medical evidence at the inejnest showed that, death was due to a fractured skull and dislocation' of the neck.