ACCIDENTS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20234, 12 May 1931, Page 10

ACCIDENTS.

CAUGHT IN MACHINERY. When he was" caught in the machinery at tho Waikuku. Twino. Mills, early on Saturday morning, Alfred Yax ey, V/ Woodend, was-badly bruised, , and; his , clothes were torn olf. had one of liis arms burned and one • his shoulders injured.. -He.WM .taken, to the Christchureh .Public Hrepitai, and is now .in a serious condition. BOY KILLED. >RBS? ' ASSOCIATION ' PAOIERBTQN NORTH, May 11. An accident which, occurred at the intersection of tho Rangitikei lino and the Bunnythorpe-Kairanga road at 8;4o last evening, • when, a car overturnetl after skidding ■in - lose metal, resu te , in the death of Harold Bennett, aged twelve. The car was driven by deceased's brother, who was not injured. Other occupants escaped with slight injuries."

WOMAN FALLS UNDER RAILWAY CARRIAGES. (rRBSS ASSOCIA.TIOK TttXOKAII-) HAMILTON, May 31. Shocking injuries about the head were received by. Mrs J. Cooke, of "\\ aimato'North, a passenger on the Auck- . iand-Tauranga train, at Irankton shortly after 1 p.m. Sho had alighted at the station, and mistook tho moving carriages ..which were uncoupled from the train for the express, and m,attempting. to board the carriages tell, beneath the wheels. Death was instantaneous. PLUMBER'S DEATH. (miss ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.). AUCKLAND, May 11. ' I'atal, injuries .were received by 'James Waite, a plumber, agod 49, as a result of falling from the rooj: of■ .in Grey. Lyrm. The back of his head struck a wooden fence and death was almost instantaneous.