ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22453, 25 September 1936, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

FATAL SCUFFLE. B. Rogers, a member of the New Zealand Maori Rugby team, was admitted to Palmerston North Hospital shortly after 9 on Wednesday night, suffering from serious head injuries, the result of a fall a short time earlier. Rogers died in the afternoon. It appears that the deceased and Hawea Mataira, of Wairoa (another member of the team) had an argument as to the ownership of an Australian souvenir, and during the scuffle Rogers fell on the concrete floor to suffer fatal injuries. Roger's cam© from Gisborne, but belonged to the Rotorua district. He was 24 years of age and married. BOY’S FALL. The death occurred in the Wellington Hospital of John Rylands Yorston, aged 10, as a result of injuries received when he fell down a 10ft embankment at the Botanical Gardens on Sunday. He had accompanied his parents' and a school friend to the gardens, the two boys rambling a short distance ahead. Deciding to turn back, the parents called the two boys, and Yorston when descending lost his balance and fell headlong over the bank. He was taken to hospital, where an examination disclosed a fractured skull. body identified. It was definitely established yesterday that the body of the man washed up on the beach near Cape Palliser on Tuesday was that of Cecil Ernest Latham, one of the victims of the double drowning fatality in Lake Onoko on July 5. Identity was established by remains of clothing and a glass eye. An inquest will be held. body on beach. The body of Arthur Mumford (53), single, was found at the water's edge in Caroline Bay this morning. Deceased lived in a bach. Apparently he was drowned and the body left on the beach by the receding tide.—Press Association. STRUCK BY CRANE HANDLE. As a result of being struck on the head by a crane handle, John Betfield, aged 16, was admitted to the Hospital at 11.10 a.in. suffering from head injuries. The injured youth, who resides at 489 George street, is employed at Sparrow’s foundry, where the injury was received. MOTOR VICTIM IMPROVING. The Hospital authorities report that Donald Short, who was struck by a motor car at the intersection of Manor Place and Princes street on Monday evening, is showing an improvement, and his name has been transferred from the dangerously ill to the seriously ill list. TEACHER’S FATE. A Blenheim Association message states that, as the result of a search which has been in progress since yesterday afternoon, the body of Arthur Leslie Rowe, who disappeared on Wednesday, was found in the Taylor Riverbed in the vicinity of Burleigh, on the outskirts of Blenheim, this morning. A discharged rifle was alongside. Deceased was 46 years old, a member of the staff of Marlborough College for the past seven years. Previously he taught at Nelson College. He had been in ill-health for some months, and on extended sick leave. He leaves a wife and three grown-up children.