ACCIDENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1930, Page 5

ACCIDENTS

: CHILD FATALLY SCALDED.,

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)'

CHRISTCHURCH, November 29.

Natalie Colleen Fitzgibbon, aged one and a-half years, daughter of a Loburn farmer, died at the Christchurch Hospital yesterday evening, as the result of a scalding from the accidental fall of a saucepan of boiling water, WELLINGTON DROWNINGS. WELLINGTON, November 30. About ten o’clock last night, a seaman, whose . name is at present unknown, was seen to fall off the wharf near the Westmoreland, and he disappeared in the darkness. The body has not yet been recovered. This morning, while fishing off Thorndon breastwork, a fisherman hooked, and hauled up/, (the "body of another unknown man, who had .been in the water some time. The fisherman summoned a police party who were nearby dragging for the body of the seaman, and they brought the body ashore. Efforts at identification l '-so’ l fSr have been unsuccessful. Dragging continues for the body of the seaman. FATAL CAR CAPSIZE. DUNEDIN, Dec. I. . While motoring to Christchurch to Attend his brother’s funeral, Harry Bradiyell, a printer of Lawrence, was drowned in a creek, a .mile nwth of Palmerston,, early ’ this morning.' From meagre details available it appears that a car driven by Colin Goodlet, of Lawrence, . with deceased and a lady as passengers;’J?an info the' creek and capsized. Goodlet was not seriously injured hut was . hospitalled semi-conscious. The lqdy wqs Uninjured. % CHRISTCHURCH, December 1.

The sister off the dead men on hearing of the second fatality set out on her cycle to.tell her'relatives at New Brighton and While doing so her dress caught in the, wheel. She was thrown heavily and is suffering severe injuries to her face and shock. -