ACCIDENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1930, Page 6

ACCIDENTS

journalist drowned. \By Tclegr’a^ii— Press Assooiation), _ • •«'* ' GQREf Dec:‘ 28. The body of Alfred James Grant, aged 47, married, with' four children, a frell-khbwn journalist, residing" at Mataiira, was found in the Mataura •River ’to-day. Deceased was missing since yesterday morning. ’ SUDDEN DEATH. DUNEDIN; Dec. 27. A young man named Stark, 21 years of age, resident in Dunedin, collapsed and died on the beach at Warrington, presumably 'from heart failure. CHILD KILLED. GBRJSCTHURGH. Deo. 27. Struck by a log at South Bay, Kaikoura, on Wednesday afternoon, Dorothy Roberts, aged four, died' within ten-minutes. • - : i FATAL COLLISION. " ' : ■ ' ' ROTORUA, Dee. 27. s Ered -; Will's- Croft, of Pakaka, 23, victim of a motor 'collision 'ypsterjdayon Whiikarowa'rew'a. read, died at King George V. Hospital last night from injuries received. . ;: iA i ; bus and' car' collided, .-three 'ocoupants- of the car-being-taken to hospital. Frances Willeston Croft has a broken leg and.other injuries. Agues ’ Wiilestori'^Grbft^h®s'''eondusfsioii' and her --condition -is serious. William Hudson, of the -biis" company;- wfectit • about-'the head,' : necessitating -surgical treatment. AUCKLAND AVIATION TRAGEDY. AUCKLAND, Dec. 27. A verdict of accidental death was returned at the “inquest on Cyril Herbert Olsen, aged’ 23, who crashed when flying on December 22nd close to Mangere'Aerodrome. - Evidence was given that the ■ machine, had been tested and -flown before Olsen flew' it, and it was in perfect order; also that the controls ‘were examined ’after tlie crash •and -were found intact. - Deceased’s log - book contained’ an entry saying that on-April 23, 1930, he felt groggy, after doing spins and loops with another pilot, RMJV- Copley. The Aero Club’s ground engineer expressed the , view that Olseri had” fallen forward to the extent of his safety belt with the control stick iii his hand. The forward pressure of the stick 1 would maintain tlie steep angle of dive- noticed by observers. The Coroner said it. seemed Olsen lost control through ail unknown reason. He found the actual .cause of- death' was shock following injuries. ~ SPEEDWAY TRAGEDY. v • SYDNEY, Dec. 28. "During the rnotof cycle races at Wentworth Speedway'last ' night," a competitor Geoffrey Hibberd, aged 27, was. killed. Several others fell. v k CANTERBURY ACCIDENTS. CHRISTCHURCH,’ Dec. 28. ITwb Christchurch boys were injured in a shooting accident to-day. Frpok Hodges, aged 16, on a shooting, expedition at Greendale, sat down to unload his gun, ~ which went off accidentally, a bullet entering his left foot. G. F. Blackburn, also 16, out shooting at Governor’s Bay, was sitting on the grass when anothev boy’s gun hit a rock and fired, tlie shot . entering Blackburn’s right hip. Both boys were admitted to the hospital. Both injuries are not. serious.

" A motor cyclist, 8... .Stafford was injured in a colUsiion with .fc motor car at Woodlisttii i'Koad at TO; .o’clock’ this inorningf;- arid ww admitted To hospital witlid severe head injuries: His condition, . is:.‘serious. He partly regained consciousness this afternoon. : I ~ boy, BATHER DROAVNED. ] MASTERTON, Dec. 28 i A boy of sixteen years, John" Maher, jwas drowned in AVltiohifie River, at ;Greytown, this afternoon. Deceased [went to the river In company With a ilad of eleven, and waded into tlie {river for some distance, when he fiudjdenly disappeared into a deep hole. The body was recovered tliree-quar-jters of an hour later. Deceased was 'employed as a farm hand by Air AVillliam AValsh, of Ahiakouka, and he came from ISt. Joseph’s Home, Upper Hutt. ' . ’ '