ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
(Per Press Association).
While working with the electric lines erection gang m the hist tunnel south of Paekakariki about 11.30 a.m. yesterday, Walter Burns, single, aged 30 years, of 50 Ellesmere Avenue, Miramar, was struck by the down Auckland express. The injured man was removed to the Wellington Public Hospital, where he was admitted in a serious condition, suffering from severe injuries to his legs. Late last night his condition was reported to be unchanged.
At the inquest in Wanganui yesterday on Constable Robert Sims, who was found lying in the central station yard on Thursday morning last with bullet wounds in the chest, and who later died in hospital, the coroner found a verdict that the wounds were self-inflicted while deceased was in a state of mental depression.
While engaged in juvenile archery practice with some companions on Tuesday, a lad of 12 years, a son of Mrs. A. Brown, of Hikurangi, met with a serious accident to an eye. The boy put his eye to a hole in the target and an arrow shot bv another child passed through it and pierced an eyeball. It is believed the sight can be saved.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 17 November 1927, Page 4
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197ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 17 November 1927, Page 4
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