ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 November 1927, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

fPer Press Association). Dragging operation at the wharf at Greymouth have failed to locate the body of the boy Charles Sweetnian, believed to have fallen in the river on Thursday while whitebait fishing beneath the wharf, but the boy’s whitebait net was located under the wharf. George Shepherd, a carpenter, aged 31, of 22 Chamberlain street, Karori, died in the public hospital. Wellington, yesterday afternoon from a fractured skull, received as the result of being knocked down a lift well during building operations in the T. and G. buildings at the corner of Grey street and Lambton Quay, about 11.40 a.m. While unloading the steamer West Ivan at Wellington, yesterday, two watei'siders, C. B. Lamb, of 164 Jarrett street, and Thomas Henry Perham, of 28 Tatanga Crescent, were injured, the former receiving lacerated wounds on both legs by being struck by a timber sling, and the latter sustaining a fractured leg and fractured ankle by being hit by a hatch bearer. Edward Stackhouse, aged 21. was riding ,a motor cycle in Christchurch yesterday when he collided with a motor. He received serious head injuries and was taken to hospital. Tho impact smashed the bumper bar of the car.