ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3081, 11 May 1917, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

I ! o DEATH OF AN INFANT. ( Aii inquest was held yesterday afteri noon by Mr. W. G. Riddoll, S.M., into > the circumstanceb attending the death ' of Morris M'F'arlano, aged three years i and ten months, the infant son of s Daniel M'Fariane, 249 Rintoul Street, who was run over by a milk van .last ! ; Tuesday morning and died iu the Hospital about 4.30 p.m. the same day. According to the evidence the child was sent to deliver a message, and while crossing the street was knocked down by a milk van belonging to . Walter Russell, dairyman, of 162 Bussell Terrace, and driven by Frederick I Piper. The child was taken in tho milk van to the Hospital immediately. I The off wheel of the van passed over | the body of the child. I The Coroner returned a verdict that i death was due to injuries received from j being accidentally run over by a milk ! van. FATALITY AT FREEZING WORKS. By Telegraph.—Press Association Wairoa, May 10. A fatal accident occurred at the.' freezing works last night. A (.allow | department employee named Fred Ell- ! inei's, aged forty-five years, married, j with a wife and six children, when carrying a lead, stepped on to wet con- ' crete and was immediately electro- j cuted. ■ CHILD KILLED BY A TRAIN. GhristohuTch, May 10: I The three-year-old child of Mr". Rook I fell in front of a train at Waddington j this morning, and had her hand and foot cut off and one side of the face • crushed. , She died two hours later. ! FATALITIES IN TARANAKI. j New Plymouth, May 10. An inquest was held touching the ; death of a Maori boy, George Rangi, i aged seven years, who had been living I with his grandfather at Corbett Road. i The evidence, showed that a gun was j left in a trap in a shed where d<v ; ceased was playing. It was stated i that the gun was unloaded, and that. ! deceased must havo got a cartridge ! from the house. The verdict was that Rangi hat! been accidentally phot. [ At Warea yesterday Leonard Parker, I aged seventeen, met with an accident while driving a dray_ loaded with tneta), j the off wheel passing over his' head j and instantly killing him. | ' j < < ' j i