ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 20057, 24 December 1928, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

BODY COMES ASHORE. [Pub United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, December 23. A body, believed _to be that of Horatio Ivan Hawkins, of Victoria road, Devonport, Auckland, who was lost from a canoe off Milford Beach on Sunday week, was washed ashore on Taknpuna Beach (Auckland) yesterday. Hawkins left Devonport alone, and the canoe was picked up later in the afternoon by a launch. The paddles were inside. Hawkins was a married man with two children, and was a brother of Archdeacon Hawkins. FATAL SHOCK. An inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the loath of John William West Tyrie, rixty-two years rf age, an engineer to the Waipukurau Hospital Board, was held before Mr 11. W. Kendall, -.district coroner. Expert evidence showed that the extension lamp as used by the deceased in making an inspection of the drainage system of the isolation ward did not comply with the Government regulations. A verdict was returned that death was duo to syncope, resulting from shock following the passage of an electric current through tho body, the shock being received while the deceased was engaged on the work of the board. MOTOR SMASH. As tho result' of a serious motor smash in the early hours of Sunday morning, Sydney Harold Ratten, an employee of Messrs A. and T. Burt, Ltd., at Invercargill, lost his life. The car, driven by R, G. Day, of the Gladstone service station, was going from Invercargill towards Gladstone when it collided violently with a heavy telegraph pole on tho North road. Patten was killed outright, and Day was rendered unconscious. A third passenger, Frederick Gcrbes, was' also in an unconscious state when picked up, and with Day was removed to hospital. Day received several scalp wounds and Gerbes was cut about the face. SUDDEN DEATH. Advice was received at Invercargill yesterday that Mrs Ivy Campbell Mulligan, aged thirty-five, wife of J. Mulligan, of Glenham, died suddenly when about to board a car to visit relatives at Riverton. As she had been receiving medical attention it is thought that an inquest will not be necessary. TWO DROWNED. Two unmarried men named Vivian Maurice Donaldson, of Lower Matakana, aged twenty-six, and Lala Brown, aged nineteen, of Pakiri, were drowned off Leigh (Auckland) on Sunday. They wore in a small new craft’ with Trevor Taylor, aged nineteen* who was saved alley swimmin* half a mile. The accident occurred in an attempt to turn tho boat. Taylor says that the last ho saw of bis companions was when they wore clinging to tho upturned boat.