ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
FALL OVER A CLIFF. YOUNG WOMAN BREAKS BOTH t .; LEGS. • (By Telegraph—Press Association.) I Whangarei, September 24. A young woman named Minnie Birch, a visitor from England, was admitted to tho hospital to-day witli both legs broken. On Sunday she left a friend s place at Whangarei Heads to climb Audrey's Mountain. As she did .not return a soarch party set out that night, _ and found the missing lady, badly injured: Miss Birch had fallen over a cliff. Despite severe injuries she bandaged one leg with a handkerchief, and crawled over a mile ouhe 4 - hands and knees before the search party rescued her.. SCHOOLMASTER FOUND DROWNED Duriedln, September 24. . An inquest was held at Taieri Ferry last evening on the body of Mr. W. B. Appleby, headmaster oK Lovell's Flat School, who has been missing since August 22, and whose body-was found in the Taieri River on Tuesday, The evi■denco showed that deceased/had no worries, financial or otherwise, was a teetotaller, and in. his normal state of mind on the day. he disappeared. A verdict of found drowned was returned, there being no evidence to show how deceased got into the water.:
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2264, 25 September 1914, Page 7
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196ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2264, 25 September 1914, Page 7
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