CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18216, 29 October 1924, Page 10

CASUALTIES.

(FEESS ASSOCIATION TELtQEAMS.)

AUCKLAND, October 28.

Alfred George Lambert, labourer, 30, single, was killed by a fall from a ladder at a building in the course of erection at Anzae Avenue. He was standing on a ladder about eight feet from the ground when he overbalanced, striking his head on the ground, and apparently dislocating his neck. Death occurred in a few minutes. ROTORUA, October 28.

A Maori named Robert Jacobs, while riding a bicycle in Tutanekai street yesterday afternoon, was run over by a car owned and driven by A. J. Isdale. His condition is serious.

HAMILTON, October 28. When the employees of Bond's printing company entered the company room, this morning they found the principal, Mr Frederick Bond, lying dead on the floor with a gas tube close to liisuiouth. Deceased, who was aged forty-one, w«s a prominent and popular business man and a keen golfer. He had been in indifferent health for some time. AVANGANUI, October 28. Agnes Frances Benefield, aged 41, wife of Percy Benefield, of Aromoho, was found dead in a room this afternoon. A gas tube, connected with a gas burner, which was turned on, was found near the body. Deceased apparently was in her usual health in the morning.