ACCIDENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1930, Page 5

ACCIDENTS

WOMAN DIES OF BURNS. (Bj* Telegrapn—Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 21. As the result of burns received earlier in file day, a voung widow. Mrs .Mather, died at St. George Hospital at 8:30 this evening. It is supposed that she received the burns from an explosion of petrol in a shed at the rear of her house. Mrs Mather went to the shod at 8.10 a.m. and a lew minutes later, another occupant of the premises, Miss Kent, heard screams and she found Mrs .Mather standing in the shed with her clothing on fire. Miss Kent wrapper Mrs .Mather in rugs, which she .snatched from a clothes line, and extinguished the flames, but .Mrs Mather was very badly burned. Correction : Mrs Mather, who died of burns was not a- widow. Her name was Marjorie Willett Mather, wife of Chas. P. Mather. WORKER. HURT. INVERCARGILL, Feb. 21. Through being accidentally struck on the head by a winch handle at liis work this afternoon, Jas Fitzpatrick, a railway employee, married, aged 54 years, received a compound visceral fracture of the skull and laceration of the face. His condition before be underwent an operation this evening was reported to be serious. NARROW ESCAPE. INVERCARGILL, Feb. 21. Stewart Leary, a telegraph -messenger, aged 1G years, experienced a remarkable ascepe from serious injury I to-day. He was riding a bicycle with a pea-rifle slung over his back, when it accidentally discharged, the bullet entering tile upper portion of the right arm. The bullet was removed later at the hosnital.