ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 29, 4 February 1913, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

• (B7 XELBGRArH— rBBSS ASSOCIATION.) ' DUNED^N, 3rd February, ' The inquest, on, the body of John.Muirhead, who was lulled on Friday,, was'concluded- to-day. "Dr. Gordon Macdonald fave evidence that tMe, primary cause of eath was loss of bjood caused by injuries to the, lungs through the' cart, passing over deceased. V verdict to this, effect was 'returned. k , ' ASHBURTbN,"3rd February.; „ A , farml labourer, sixty years old, named R-ichard, Marshall, , employed >'by Mr. John Farrell.,.of Hind's, died sud,denly this afternoon.' During the,forenoon he was driving a reaping machine, and in the afternoon, ploughing. He .was on' his. way home 'after leaving work when he suddenly became ill and expired within a' few minutes. He had not. pieviously complained of being unwell. ■ - The strenuous life of to-day renders accident and sickness insurance no longer a luxury f bat a necessity.' The ' Ocean Accident and , Guarantee Corporation's new "Leader Policy" > covers all'acci* dents and 50 diseases. Prospectus sent on' receipt of application. — Advt.

Asked by an interviewer. at Invercarfill if compulsory , military training "had een popular, in Australia, the fion. C. E. . Fraaser, the Commonwealth Post-master-General, said that, undoubtedly, it' had been, and the great- majority- of the Australian people were in favour^'of -it. Recalcitrants were dealt' with effeo- | tively, and no complaint on ■ that score was heard from the general mass of the 'pe6ple. The Labour Ministry had inaugurated a compulsory system of >milii tary ti'aining." and weue prepared to sta"nd or .fall by it.. The .Australian Naval policy, Mr. Frazer . contended, was the .right one, and he thought that New.ZeaI land should co-operate with Australia in this respect. The axiom that "if ,y,ou ,w*nt to do things well, ,d«* them j yourselves," 'he said, .held 'good in connection with this .question' as in any I other, and as the, interests of New .Zealand and Australia were identical it was • dne> to both 'countries to combine, and be prepared, if -necessary, to face-a'co'tamon i'eaettjy,, •