CASUALTIES.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 December 1920, Page 4

CASUALTIES.

CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 27

Sydney Beginald S. Scott, aged 37, who resided in the old police station at Woolston, died suddenly on Christmas Eve. He had been to town to buy some toys, and oil his way hack called at the butcher’s shop of Air 11. Hickson, Ferry road, where he was seized with illness, and died suddenly. At an inquest held before Mr S. E. McCarthy, coroner, a verdict was returned, in accordance with the medical testimony of Dr Temple, that death was due to heart failure. The deceased leaves a wife and two children.

Reuben Henry, aged 03, a fellmonger of Cheviot street, Invercargill, who arrived in Christchurch a few days ago for a holiday-with bis wife died suddenly at the People’s Palace. Henry had complained of pains in the ciiest, anil was lying down in a room when he was seized, apparently with a heart attack, and died almost immediately. Dr Temple was called in, but could only pronounce life to be extinct. As the result of a collision at Ashburton between a motor-car, driven by W. AValker, and a motor-cycle, ridden by Harold Baynes,-the latter had bis leg broken. . Baynes bad motored through from Teniuka, with the intention of spending Christmas with his brother at Seafield.

George Lintern was admitted to the Christchurch hospital on Friday, suffering from a broken ankle, caused by his colliding with a motor-car while riding a motor-cycle. Frederick Arps, of Belfast, was a passenger in a side-chair attached .to a motor-cycle, which overturned on Christmas Day, and threw him on to the road. He received a severe shaking, necessitating bis removal to the Christchurch hospital.