ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2800, 19 June 1916, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

.MOTOR ACCIDENT, ON THE EVAA T S BAY ROAD.. A rather serious motor accident occurred at about 11.45 a.m. yesterday on the Evans Bay Road, between the Patent Slip and Kilbirnie. A motor-oar, driven by Mr. Chas. P. Lethaby, of Featherston Street, was proceeding along t he road towards Kilbirnie, and when Bearing a bend at a place where the road is only about 15ft. in width, a motorcycle travelling in the, opposite direction came along at a good rate of speed, with the result that there was a head-on collision. The rider of the motor-cycle was Mr. Harold Worboys, of Hamilton Road, Kilbirnie, and he had behind him as a passenger Private Algernon North, a member of the 14th Reinforcements. Both men were thrown off violently, and were so knocked about that they had to be Temoved at once to the Hospital. Mr. Lethaby, in his statement to the police, said that he was travelling at about 14 or 15 miles an hour on the crown' of the road, which was very narrow, and attributes the accident to the motor-cycle skidding just before it met the car. On inquiry at the Hospital last evening it was ascertained that Mr. Worboys only received minor injuries and a severe shaking, and'was removed from flie institution by his parents. North was_ rajther badly bruised, particularly on tne left-leg, but no bones were broken. LOST OVERBOARD. Albert Tristam, bo'sun on board the Union Company's was lost overboard between the hours of 10.40 p.m. and midnight on Saturday. At the time the vessel was coming down the coast from Auckland to Wellington. It was a fine, clear night, with no sea. Tristam was last seen near the cook's galley at 10.40 p.m., talking to some of the watch on deck. Previous to this he bad complained of not feeling too well, and had procured Borne medicine from the chief steward. When he was not seen about the decks, nor in his bunk at about midnight, some members of the crew reported the matter to the officer on watch. The latter promptly informed the oaptain, and a thorough search was mode for the missing man, without result. ' Tristam was well known on several of the Union. Com■pany's steamers. He had been on the Waihora for the past eight months. Prior to that he was bo'sun on the Tahiti. POUND DEAD. By Telegraph—Press Association. Pahiatua, June' 17. Harry Mossop, a married man with a young family, well known in connection with stud horses, was found dead a distance from his home at Marima with his throat cut. Lately ; he entered into partnership in a leasehold farm at Marima. There is no reason for the act. DROWNING ACCIDENT. Gisborne, June 17. . A report from Tuparoa states that through the capsizing of a launch, whioh was towing a timber raft ashore, the second offictr of the steamer Mako was drowned. His name is not available. The lauUch capsized about seventy-five yards from the shore in a heavy 6ea. The second officer's body was recovered on the rocks. Another occupant of tho launch succeeded in swimming aßhore through the surf.