ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22444, 15 September 1936, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

FOUND SHOT. A Christchurch association message states that Harry E. Ayers, a wellknown Lyttelton was found shot at his shop this morning, with a pea rifle lying beside his boofy, FOUND DEAD IN HUT. A Greymouth Association message states that Herihert Nyberg (65) was found dead in his hut at Atarau this morning. He was working yesterday but left early, feeling unwell. His mate called this morning and found him dead. He was a native of Sweden, where his wife and three children reside. Nyberg came to the Dominion in 1903. MISHAP TO NIGHTWATCHMAN. An Auckland Association telegram states that after falling down a night of stairs at Hellaby’s meat works, Westfield, at 4. o’clock this morning, the nightwatchman, Birkett Germann (48), of Onehunga, despite a fractured right thigh, crawled to the next floor and broke a window with his torch. An engineer who was on duty heard the noise and summoned < the St. John Ambulance . and Dr Griffen, of Otahuhu. The injured man was taken to hospital, and an X-ray examination is being made. CHILD SUFFOCATED. A Press Association message from Hokitika states . that the sixteen-months’-old daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Gugich died yesterday afternoon, following, a fall and suffocating as a result of swallowing some foreign substance. *