SERIES OF ACCIDENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20784, 20 April 1939, Page 2

SERIES OF ACCIDENTS

CAR OCCUPANT KILLED SOMERSAULTS MANY TIMES (Special to Times) GISBORNE, Wednesday Mr Ronald Middleton Taylor (30), single, secretary N'o. 4 camp of the Young Men’s Christian Association, was killed this afternoon when a car in which he and three others were returning from Gisborne to the railway construction camps crashed over a 60ft. bank some distance north of Paritu.

It somersaulted 12 times while descending into a gully. Two others, also secretaries of the Y.M.C.A. camps, are in hospital, their condition being: serious. They are Messrs James Kennedy, of Kopuawhara, and Stanley Hodges, of Paritu.

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FARM WORKER BURNED (Special to Times.) PAEROA, Wednesday Mr Ernest R. Johnson (24) was severely injured at Netherton while working in the milking shed of his father. An explosion of benzine threw him violently against the wall and ignited his clothes, and also set fire to the shed, which was considerably damaged. Mr Johnson is in the Paeroa Hospital, his condition being serious. FINGERS LACERATED BUTCHER’S INJURIES Severe lacerations to the fingers were received by Mr Harold Bower 64), married, a butcher, employed at the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company’s works at Horotiu, when he caught his right hand in a mincing machine this morning. He was admitted to the Waikato Hospital for treatment. KNOCKED DOWN* BY CAR Mrs Eliza Matilda Corrigan (70), a widow, of Kingsland, was knocked down by a motor-car on New North Road, Auckland, last night. She is in the Auckland Hospital in a serious condition. TRACTOR CRASHES * DRIVER KILLED INSTANTLY (By Telegraph.—Press Association) GISBORNE, Thursday Mr Thomas Charles Hutton, an employee at the Gisborne Box Company’s mill at Waitangirua, was killed instantly late yesterday afternoon when the tractor he was driving crashed through a bridge. The crash was heard a few minutes after Mr Hutton left the mill and investigation showed that the bridge had collapsed and Mr Hutton was pinned beneath the tractor.