ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
SHOCKED DOWN BY A MOTOR-CAB,
, By Telegraph-Snecial Correspondent. !.: . ■ Masterton, May. 26. An elderly man named Thomas, Warmer was knocked down by ■■ a motor-car .near Masterton on Saturday night, and jjvas severely injured about the head and legs.
MAORI KILLED BY LIGHTNING By Telegraph—Press Association.
Whangarei, May 26. During a. heavy thunaorstorm . yesterjrlay afternoon, a Maori, fifty years of age, aamed M,atthew Harawera, engaged on load work at Akerama, twenty miles jtiorth of-Whangarei, was killed/ Ho took .6helter under a kahikatea tree, and was struck instantly dead by lightning. Ho tleaves a widow.
i .WATERSIDE WORKER MOWNED. ■ An Inquest into the der. a of a water--jlside worker, James Dunn." opened beforo JMr. W. G. Piiddell, S.M., 6n Saturday (morning. Deceased was a married man, hnd resided with his family in Pallisor (Road, Eosencath. Evidence given.--on Saturday showed that about 10.20 p.m. ion Friday a youth in the employ of the [Union Company 'was' returning to his ship along Jervois Quay when ho heard a splash. Seeing that a man had fallen jinto the water, he got a lifebuoy and icalled for help. Ho threw the lifebuoy, (but Dunn failed to grasp it and was drowned. Deceased was about 4S years of' age, aid was employed as a. coal {worker. The inquiryiwas adjourned lill j* p.m. to-day.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3095, 28 May 1917, Page 7
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