ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19790, 14 February 1928, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

GUN AND FENCE—ANOTHER TRAGEDY.

Trevor Shannon, a well-known farmer at Waituua, was found dead a short distance from his home with a gun bv his side. The indications were (says a Feilding message) that the gun had been accidentally discharged while ho was getting through a fence. He had gone out with the intention of shooting rabbits. The deceased leaves a wife and young family. DROWNED. While bathing on the Waikanae Beach, Gisborne, Christian Tange Lauritzen, a resident of Taihape, aged forty-nine years, was carried out by the undertow. Two men of H.M.S. Dunedin, a steward named R. A. Smith, and a seaman named H. Chadwick, swam to his assistance, and held the man up till a lifeline was carried out, but Lauritzen was dead when brought ashore. , ~ , . While bathing in the Pomahaka River, below the bridge at the Pomahaka siding, Stephen Mashn, aged twenty-two, sou of Mr Walter Maslin, a farmer, of Pukerau, was drowned at 5.30 yesterday. The deceased _ was _ a member of a picnic party which included his mother, lather, sister, and two women friends. He remarked that he intended to swim across the river, and crossed without trouble. Soon after entering the water on his return, however, be shouted that lie was in dii* Acuities, and one of the women went to his assistance. Before she could reach him he had disappeared. A search for the bodv by diving was unsuccessful, but a boat was secured, and eventually the body was recovered in Sit of water.