ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
SEVERE INJURIES. Peter Bayer, a farmer at Takekeroa, was driving a bullock team across the railway, when the bullocks were struck by a train. One was killed and another bady injured. Bayer was not hurt then, but later, when the bullocks were dragging timber, Bayer fell from a derrick used to raise an injured bullock, and sustained a fracture of the jaw, nose, and back of the skull.— Auckland Press Association telegram. WELL-KNOWN BOXER KILLED. Richard George Pascoe, the wellknown Greymouth boxer, was killed last evening a mile from Reefton through the tyre of his motor cycle and side car he was riding bursting. His companion escaped injury. Pascoe was twenty-five vears of age, and leaves a widow and three young children.—Press Association telegram. BATHING FATALITY. An Invercargill Association message states that Archibald Butler, single, aged twenty-five, while bathing at Fortress on Sunday evening, was seized with cramp and sank before assistance arrived. The body has not been recovered.
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Evening Star, Issue 19789, 13 February 1928, Page 5
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162ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 19789, 13 February 1928, Page 5
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