ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2521, 23 July 1915, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FATAL FALL BUILDING v-. ; v .. .'A fatal accident occurred' at about afternoon at tho scene of the building operations now in progress for the. Wellington Publishing Company, at tho rear of tho Dominion offices. The. victim was Aloxander Blair Anderson clerk °f works, in connection with the building. Mr. Anderson was working on tho roof of tho building at the tune, when ono.of a pair of goloshes lie was wearing became jambed, and in en- , ticavouring to freo it he apparently overbalanced. Ho fell through a 16-inch j opening between the joists to tho conCrete floor, 40, feet below, vln tlie course of the.fall Mr. Blair struck a stringer Death was practically instantaneous. Deceased'was taken to IYO. 60 Boulcott Street, where he resided with Ms wife, and on Dr. Beard being called in he pronounced life extinct. on tho contract was" immediately suspended for 'the day after tho sad happening. t The late Mr. Anderson, who was 70 years of age, well-known and respected resident, of .Wellington, ail officebearer in the Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church, and fmember'-of Bowling Club. --He has supervised' the erection of many important buildings in the} City, : and - was • knoira' 'to be, a' ■ very careful worker, and ta'have a very com-' plete knowledge of bnildjig-' construction. Some 47 years ago Mr. Anderson' ,was jpresented with a- gold' ivatcli for saving a life in tho Clyde,' Scotland.An inquest will be held,.but the date has not yet been fixed. " ~

- BODIES IN .THE'- HUTT RIVER. o woid has as yet-been received by the police of the recovery of either'the , body reported to havo been 6een floating • in the Hutt River: on Monday last, or . of: the body of, Christopher ■'Neilsbnyvwho. ,-. was drowned near. Mungaroa on Wednesday. A thorough search is to bo in- : : stituted 'as soon as the iji tho river. :- - ■ f?. : ;•'■ , rA married,man named William Feeley, who lives at Petone, received a scvero electric shock to his system whilo he was employed in repairing the bolls; in: coni nection with the lift in' Messrs. Williams, Hunt and Co.'s offices, in Fea- .; therston Street, yesterday morning; 'Fee,ley, who is by"• Messrs: R. -F. -.Walls and C 0.,, elcctrioal engineers,,' was attendedito by Dr. Clay, prior to his re- .' moval to the Hospital. - - - • BRIDGE-BUILDER DROWNED, • By Telegraph.—Press Association. / ■ ■■ ■!"Rotorua, July 22:;, William Hartley, aged 40, employed by the Public Works Department erecting -a bridge at Okore, drowned to- • day through the collapse of tho staging : precipitating him into the' riveri! He - leaves a widow and two children.;: His". . mate, Pearson, who was also precipi--tated into the water, got ashore. .-.Tlie'' ';i; Sody has not yet/heen-recoyered.' -;

v ' LEVEL CROSSING FATALITY. , : Auckland, July 22. ; The collision at; King's Street level crossing between a?.train and; a',/trap yesterday terminated fatally-this afternoon, when Mr. Robert Barber,', baker ' and confectioner, who was driving the trap, died from his injuries. • •< • A photographer named Robert: Love . was this morning found dead in his studio in Ponsonby with a bullet wound in Lis head. One ■ hand clasping . the muzzle.of a.pea rifle. -'