ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 23383, 28 September 1939, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Claude Pickering, aged 23, employed at Watson, Steele, and Ganley’s, Auckland, was electrocuted yesterday at the works of Ellis and Burnand, Manunui, while he was effecting alterations and repairs to electrical installations at 1.30 p.m. Pickering came into contact with a live wire and died almost immediately. Dr Sturtevant was summoned, but Pickering failed to respond. FATALLY INJURED BY CAR. Returning a verdict that Vivian Claude Parker, aged 37, a barman, died at Island Bay on August 22 from severe head injuries received by being knocked down by a car driven by Thomas Francis Hooper, the coroner (Mr E. Gilbertson) said he was satisfied that the windscreen was in a dimmed state, partly through its condition and partly through the weather, which was stated to be foggy.- The visibility was not good. Hooper said that the car, a seven horse-power model, was made in 193132. The windscreen was of shatterproof glass, and the bottom right-hand corner was cracked where it had been struck by a stone. He said the screen was of a yellow tinge throughout; it was not as he admitted such screens sometimes were. It was not misty enough at the time of the accident to have the wiper working. A police constable said the screen was dirty and impaired the vision, except where the wiper had been working. The visibility that evening was not good. ARM CRUSHED UNDER ROLLER. A Carterton Association message states that a most painful accident befell Thomas Hicks, farmer, of Matarawa, yesterday. He was engaged rolling a paddock, when the horses bolted. Hicks was thrown to the ground, and the roller passed over him. His right arm was terribly crushed, the skin from shoulder to hand being completely torn open, and the muscles and tissues wrench.ed from the hone. He was admitted to Croydon Private Hospital, but it is problematical whether the arm can be saved. It is Hicks’s sixty-second birthday to-day.