ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 June 1924, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) GISBORNE, June 27. Alfred Scott, a station hand at Hangaroa, whilst adjusting a eras generating plant, struck a match and became suddenly enveloped in flames. He was severely burned and was admitted to hospital. t PAiiiViERfc»TON N., June 27. vit the inquest into the death of ihomas Lowe lenton. who died from injuiies sustained when knocked down by a motor car on Wednesday evening, evidence was given that the car was being driven very slowiv and the nmht was exceptionally dark. The coroner said the car was being driven with every care, and no blame was attachable to the di iver. A verdict was returned that deceased died from shock and haemorrhage caused by injuries sustained by being knocked down ijy a motor car.

AUCKLAND . June 27. Lawrence Wyatt, aged 19, formerly, employed on a farm a Omahu, who was in hospital here for heart trouble caused by acute rheumatism, was found at ‘3 o’clock this morning dead, having cyt his throat with a razor. He had not given any evidence of suicidal tendency. and despite his infirmity he was generally of a cheerful disposition PALMERSTON N„ June 27. Ihe body oi a man found in the Manawatu river at .Fox-ton yesterday lias been identified as that of Ernest Stuart Mcßean, aged 34. a school teacher, who resided at Palmerston iNortli. Deceased was renorted missing to the police on April 27 last, and it was later reported that the body of a man had been seen in the Manawatu river, near Palmerston North, but despite a vigilant search the bodv was not then recovered. The body was in an advanced state of decomposition, and was identified by the clothiim. HAMILTON, June 27. At the inquest concerning the death of a youth named Maurice Enoch Ansell, who was killed on May 6 through being knocked down from a bicycle by a taxi driven by Joseph Balls, a’verdict of accidental death was returned. The coroner added that the fatality was due either to the excessive speed of Baile’s car or to Balle not having kept) a proper look-out. Alternatively, if he had seen the boy he had failed to use ordinary care by reducing the sneed and veierine to the left.