ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2731, 28 March 1916, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

'_—*—:— -.'■ ■ TIPPED OUT OF A CART. An accident happened to a lad named Joseph Smith, of Clareville, who is in the employ of Messrs. Lindop and Knutson, grocers, Carterton. The lad was in the act of delivering some grassseed, and was putting the bag towards the tail of the cart, when the horse moved off, tipping both seed and boy out. Smith fell heavily to the ground and dislocated, his shoulder-blade. After receiving medical attention, .the lad was removed to the Masterton Hospital. SCALDED TO DEATH. . By Telegraph—Press Association. Rotorua, March 27. The Maori child, Marjorie. Katene, who fell into a.hot spring on Friday, has succumbed. FATAL FALL FROM SCAFFOLDING. Dunedln, March 27. William Leslie Hepburn, aged _ 33, while engaged painting the Tahiti. in Port Chalmers dock on Saturday, fell from.the scaffolding to the dock f)oor,_ and received injuries to the head' from' which he died yesterday morning. CISBORNESCHOOLS AGAIN CLOSED. Glsborne, March 27. The schools reopened tc-day, hut partly owing to a strong warning by a local medical nian in the Press the a*> tendances were very poor, and as an-, other case of infantile paralysis was re-ported,-it was decided to close the schools again for the remainder of the week. .-'■.' POSITION IN AUCKLAND., Auckland, March 27. Seven cases of infantile paralysis were reported,from the country to-day, hut none from 1 the city. The cases" notified in the province now number 421, of which 246 have occurred in the country. . . i ■