ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
FRACTURED LEG. ELDERLY WOMAN INJURED. Mrs Jessie Graham (76), was admitted to the Waikato Hospital yesterday with a fractured thigh, which she received when she fell at her home in Te Kuiti. She was taken to the hospital in a St. John ambulance and her condition is satisfactory. KILLED INSTANTLY. LORRY STRIKES MOTOR-CYCLE. (By Telegraph. —Press Association.) HASTINGS, Saturday. When the motor-cycle he was riding was struck by a motor-lorry near the Whakatu Freezing Works last evening, Mr Leslie Clyde Boyce .23), married, with one child, was killed instantly. The lorry was driven by Russell William Spencer (17). RUN OVER BY TRUCKS. MARRIED WORKER KILLED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, Saturday. The first fatal accident of the South Main Trunk railway construction works occurred yesterday afternoon when Mr Augustus Oscar Goltington (48), married, of Blenheim, a labourer, was killed instantly. He was run over by a rake of trucks conveying spoil from the tunnel at Ohau Bluff to a tip on the seashore. Mr Gottington was engaged repairing Hie rail track and the noise of an air compressor in tlie vicinity prevented liis hearing Hie approach of the trucks. The body, badly mangled, was removed to Kaikoura.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20248, 17 July 1937, Page 8
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