WEEK-END MISHAPS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 225, 23 September 1929, Page 8

WEEK-END MISHAPS.

SKID IN LOOSE SAND. SHOT OVER A CULVER TWO PEOPLE ■ (By Tclcsra.ph.-Own Correspond y HAMILTON, this dav Skidding in looso sand on $\ Koad yoiday a caTcoli^ 1 Myrtle Tootel, her mother, Mrs and Florence Tootel and Mr r} Bdioflold, of Hamilton, s l lot culvert, but was hung Up by ° Ver; a wheel fixture at the rear catch™ m concrete. Mrs. Tootel was th? ** several feet down an embankment"? sustained shock, necessitatis W * moval to the hospital. Two sustained bruises and abrasions car was badly damaged. ' • " e TWO MOTOR CARS CAPSIZ^ MOTOR CYCLIST STRIKES A HORSE, (By Telograph.-Own Correspondent.); HUNTLY, thia L Two motor cars, drivpn h-n ur 11. Burton, of Hun y gf* collided on the Ohinewai Road 3£t 3 pan. Mr. Wallace's car had one ofS back wheels carried away, and it tunS turtle, but nobody was hurt. Messrs. Frank West and Leslie Fox returning from Taupiri on a Jfc cycle about / p.m. yesterday, ran into , straying horse in Huntly South Tbev were thrown heavily on the road. West's face and forehead were badly cut Mr E. Reilly took West to a doctor who sent him to Huntly Hospital, where three stitches were inserted in his forehead and nose. Fox received abrasions of his left hand, and Mr. Reilly took him home also.

A car was passing through Huntlv South at S p.m., and when crossing a stone culvert, a tyre blew out. The cat and its four occupants were hurled into about 3ft of water. The hood of the car was carried away, and other dama<r 9 was done. No one was seriously hurt.° MAN'S THIGH BROKEN. FOOTBALLING ACCIDENTS. Mr. William Sweet, aged 32, of 75 Owen's Road, Mount Eden, received severe injuries to the head and a broken right leg through being knocked down by a motor car near the Epsom Post Olfice, Manulcau Road, about nine o'clock on Saturday evening. He was taken to the hospital in a private car, and his: condition to-day is reported to be Dot serious. As the result of a collision between a motor car and his motor cycle near tie foot of Anzac Avenue about 6.30 last evening. Mr. T. J. Boyd'was thrown heavily from his machine to the concrete roadway. He was taken to the hospital in an unconscious state by tbe St.. John Ambulance, but was afterwards able tb go to the Purewa Public Works camp; where he lives. The cycle was badly damaged. A broken left thigh was received by Mr. J. Comber, of 46, Islington Street, Ponsonby, when he was knocked down by a motor car at the Three Lamps, Ponsonby, on Saturday afternoon. He was taken to the hospital by the' St. John Ambulance. His condition to-day is reported as not serious. Mi". Clifford Owen, married, aged 27, of Speight's Road, Kohimarama, was burned on the feet and legs when his machine caught fire on the Great South Road aboiit 6.30 last evening. He was taken to the hospital, and his condition to-day is not serious. Playing for Grafton seniors at Eden Park on Saturday, Mr. N. J. McConnell, aged 21, broke his right leg. He was taken to the hospital, where his condition is not serious. Mr. McConnell lives at the Y.M.C.A. Concussion of the brain was received by Mr. J. Davis, of Avondale, while he was playing for Ponsonby third grade against Newton at Point Chevalier. The St. John Ambukince took him to the hospital. y '■ CHILD DIES FROM SCALDS. . (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) KAITAIA, this day. The four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Peterson, of Victoria. Valley, died in Kaitaia Hospital on Saturday as the result of scalds received when she fell into a dish of boiling fowl food..