AÇIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 112, 29 January 1918, Page 4

AÇIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

girl drowned while bathing By Telegraph—Press Association. Cisborne, January 28. Elizabeth Galloway,' aged 22, was drowned whilst bathing at Waikanae beach yesterday afternoon. Two other girls had narrow escapes. The girls were caught in the undertow. LITTLE GIRL CRUSHED BY A DRAY. Ashburton, January 28.# Marjorie Ethel Gill, aged six years, a daughter of Robert Gill, a farmer at Chert'sey, met with a fatal accident this morning. The horse attached to a dray bolted, and the little girl was crushed between the wheels of the dray and a post. Death was instantaneous. man fatally" crushed: By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, January 28. John Burron, a boilerraarker, was crushed in the crank pit of a steamer at Port Chalmers on Friday, and "led in hospital yesterday. RUN OVER BY A LORRY. (By TeltErauh-Snecial Correspondent.) Masterton, January 28. A man named George Smith this morning fell from a lorry containing sixty sacks of oats. The wheels of the lorry passed over his legs, badly fracturing one and injuring the other. Ho was admitted to the Masterton Hospital. ACCIDENT AT OPAKI. A man named Smith, employed by I Mr. Pierce Cotter, fanner, of Opnki, had his right leg fractured on Monday morning through a bag of oats falling on him.