ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 110, 26 January 1918, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

BOY, DROWNED WHILE BATHING. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, January 25. 'Allan Alexander Campbell, aged 13, was drowned while bathing on the beach at Nugget Bay yesterday. Miss Quin, Jvho was-bathing with the lad, mado heroic efforts to save him. The boy's father is manager of tho National Bank at Gore. ' ■ '

'J SAILOR LOST OVERBOARD

DuneUin, January 25. Kingsly Knight, an apprentice, whoso parents reside at Hamilton, fell overboard from an oversea sailing ship on Saturday when ofi Banks Peninsula. A. lifebuoy was thrown over and a boat lowered, but without success. FATALITY AT A DAIRY FACTORY. -'" Palmerston North, January 25. A youth named Eobertson was killed at the dairy factory at Glen Oroua this morning. He became entangled in some shafting and was carried up to the ceiling, which he struck with considerable force. When picked up it was found tfiat his neck was broken. Robertson tad been employed for only three days a| the factory/' BODY FOUND IN AUCKLAND HARBOUR. Auckland, January 26. The body of a man, anchored by an fiiih cog wheel, was recovered from the harbour near the Hobson Street Wharf to-day by a direr.: It is believed to bo '•hajpof John Jones,' aged 47, a former T axEour Board employee, who disapWexJ in November, while awaitinsj a charge of threatening hehavi'ni