ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2492, 21 June 1915, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

'A man named it. Bardnard, a cleaner in the employ of the New Zealand R'ail•way Department, was admitted to the Wellington Hospital on Saturday night, suffering from injuries received at the Th'orndon. Station. It is stated that •whiie lie was working underneath an engine it started to move, and a wheel passed over his hand and crushed his fingers. Two of the fingers were amputated in the Hospital, and at latest advice the patient was progressing satis- 1 factorily. Superintendent Ellison recoived a telegram on Saturday evening from Dr. Wilkins, of Pongaroa, stating that the local police officer, Constable Gcor~e Fraser, had died 'suddenly. ' On receipt i of the telegram, the superintendent instructed an officer to proceed from Paihiatua to Pongaroa to report. Advice ■was later received to the effect that death was due to heart failure, and that as Dr.' Wilkins had furnished a certificate no inquest would be necessary. The late Constable Fraser joined the IForce in 1905, and would now be about 85 years of age. Ho had been stationed at Tiiiakori Rnad as recently as March last, but was then transferred to Pongaroa. He leaves a widow and five children. (Sr Telegraph—Press AsEOc'ation.! Duneilinj Juno 19. 'John Henry Mee, aged 33, married, It farmer at Becks, was killed through a motor-car capsizing at Becks last liiglit. Deceased was driving with four otilars to St. Bathan's, when something apparently went wrong with the steering gear.