FATALITIES

Grey River Argus, 14 September 1937, Page 6

FATALITIES

[Per Press Association!. GISBORNE, September 13. Caught in the flooded Waipu river yesterday afternoon, 'Thomas Lima, married, 23, was swept from his horse and drowned. Deceased successfully crossed the river in the morning, and was attempting to return later when the river had risen two feet. His sister saw him in difficulties, and the horse later floundered from the river without the rider. A search resulted in the body being found near the mouth of the river an hour later. CHRISTCHURCH, September 12. Arthur Rupert Petersen, a music dealer, of 18 Edward Avenue, St. Albans, aged about 50, collapsed and died while sitting in a car with some companions at Lyttelton shortly before 9 o’clock this evening. Dr. C. H. Upham was called, but Petersen was dead when he arrived. He had recently been attended by another doctor for heart trouble. RUGBY, September 11. Mr Patrick Roberts, " British Charge d’Affaires to Greece, where he latterly proceeded after having joined Sir Sydney Barton at Addis Ababa in 1935 and acted there as Charge d’Affaires in 1936, was killed in a motor accident near Athens last night. Mr A. S. G. Trapman, of the British Consular Service, who was with Mr Roberts, was also killed.

TRAPPED ON RAILWAY BRIDGE. WELLINGTON, September 13. "It is quite evident that these children had no business to be where they were,” said the Coroner at the inquest on the death of Lilian Conn, aged seven, who was struck by the engine of the Napier-Wellington express on Setpember 2nd. on the Railway bridge at Kaiwarra. The engine driver of the express said he saw children on the bridge. Apparently they were crawling across on their hands and knees. He applied the emergency brake immediately. Another witness described how one girl reached the far side of the bridge in safety. The finding was that the girl was accidentally killed as the result of being knocked over by a locomotive, no blame being attributable to the engine driver