ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1931, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

FOUNT) PEAP, (Uj Telegraph—Per Press Association ) TI.MARU, August 4. Sydney Bryant a shepherd, employed ny Mr \t . I’reston on the JMio--1) rough Downs Station, Mackenzie County, was found dead in. bed in the homestead yesterday afternoon by Mr N. S. Cra Imm. lie lmd apparent.y been dead for at least two days. It is understood that death was clue to heart failure. Bryant, who was 5(1 years of age has a wife and family df two living at Ha.elbuni. He was last seen alive on Thursdav evening.

A FATAL FALL. NAPIER, August 3. Apparently losing his balance when ■x gust of wind caught r. plank which he was holding, P. Halley, a young married man, fell 'from a sc ifo ding 1 when engaged on renovation work at a Port Ahuriri wool store this morning. He died in hospital this evening. His wife resides at 130, Montreal Street, Christchurch. SHOOTING ACCIDENT, CHRISTCHURCH, August 4. When Edward Smith, of 251 Selwyn Street, was untying a douLL-barrelled shot-gun from his bicycle yesterday the gun accidentally went off, and Smith received the full charge in h.s right leg. He was taken immediately to the Christchurch Public Hospital where an operation was performed. Late last night Smith’s condition was reported to be satisfactory.