ACCIDENTS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22507, 15 September 1938, Page 12

ACCIDENTS

WORKER INJURED AT COAL MINE [THE PRESS Special Service,] REEFTON, September 14. A runaway truck at Alborn’s coalmine, at Merrijigs, near Reefton, was responsible for severe injuries suffered by John Oates, a married man of Progress Junction. The accident occurred just before the close of the shift this afternoon, and Oates was crushed between the runaway and a second truck.

Oates was given first aid and * later attended by Dr. Wicken, who removed him to hospital, where it was l found that besides severe internal injuries the full extent of which have not yet been ascertained, he had also the right leg broken in two places, and his condition was serious.

YOUNG MAN SERIOUSLY WOUNDED (PRESS ASSOCIATION TILIORAM.) PALMERSTON N„ Sept. 14. While a party was out shooting in the hills on Mr T. Laws’s property at Ihakara on Tuesday afternoon, Harold Haley, aged 23, eldest son of Mr F. Haley, Shannon, was wounded by a shot from a gun carried by his brother Clive, who tripped and fell, causing the gUn to discharge. Haley was carried to Mr Laws’s homestead and then removed by ambulance to the Palmerston North Hospital, where it was found that the bullet had penetrated the stomach. He is reported to be dangerously ill. FATAL INJURIES (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) HAMILTON, September 14. Fatal injuries were suffered by Daniel Darby Flynn, aged 22, single, a railway porter, of Hillcrest, when he was knocked from his bicycle in Naylor street, Hamilton East, late last night. Flynn was taken to hospital with severe head injuries and died early this morning. , CHILD DROWNED IN STREAM (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIN, September 14. A three-year-old child, Leslie Maitland Pratley, was found' drowned in a creek near his parents’ property in Sawyer’s Bay on Tuesday morning. The child had been seen playing with a small kite a short time previously, and it is surmised that he fell into the creek in endeavouring to recover the kite when it became entangled in a small bridge over' the stream.