ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 20138, 1 April 1929, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

BOATING 'TRAGEDY. Two men lost their lives and a third had a narrow escape from drowning at Te Ariau on Saturday when the boat in which the three were fishing on the lake, capsized. The two men drowned were;"William Horace Thomas, aged thirtyone. single. . j dames Kirkland, aged thirty-nine, married. The third member of the party was a man named Mapletop, who, it is , stated, clung to the boat, which ! drifted ashore, three miles from the ■ hotel. It is not known here yet what : caused the boat to capsize.. ! At the spot where the accident hap- ; pened the water is 711 or Bft deep, hut ’ within a 'short distance it readies a, depth of hundreds of feet, and it is , considered that (here is little likoli- | hood of the bodies being recovered.' There were no ways or means ol doing any dragging in the vicinity on Saturday. Thomas was well known in Invercargill, where lie played for the Pirates .football Club for a number of years, - Press Association. FRACTURED SKULL. An Ashburton Association message stales that a- fractured skull was sustained by Trank Godwin, an elderly man, a. carrier, as the result of a. collision between Ids gig and a motor driven by Robert M‘Nay, farmer, of Longbcadi, yesterday morning. Godwin died in hospital this morning. BOY'S BODY RECOVERED. The body of a schoolboy named George Slia'nd. who disappeared from his home on Friday, March .22, was found in the Waihopai River on Saturday afternoon. The body was fully dressed over a. bathing suit, and it is believed that it had been in the water for over a, week.—lnvercargill message. SERIOUS HEAD INJURIES. Serious "head injuries were, received by George Foster, a, married man with two .children, in a. collision with a> car driven by H. Cave, in School Gully, Hamilton East, on Saturday evening. Foster was unconscious when admitted to hospital. Ho is in a critical condition. INFANT’S FATAL MISHAP. Frank Rose, aged eighteen months, struggled halfway through the bars of his cot at the home of his foster parents, Mr and Mrs F. J. Shepperd, of West Shore, on Friday afternoon, and while suspended feet downward and held at the waist he died from shock in endeavouring to ircc himself. —Napier message. FOUND DEAD. Alexander Newton Cairns, formerly engine driver in the New Zealand railways, and recently retired, was found "at Ids boarding house at Wellington with his throat cut. An inquest will be held. FATALITY AT ETTRICKNoel Morrison Campbell, aged thirteen years, was killed at Ettrick on. Saturday morning through the capsizing of a motor van driven by his brother.