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Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1931, Page 6

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ACCIDENTS OVER HOLIDAYS MISHAPS AT GREYMOUTH. What might have been a serious accident was that which befell a passenger on an express departing for Christchurch. He fell off the train before it bad gone far from Greymouth. Although he was unconscious for some time, he only suffered slight injuries, and was on Christmas morning able to proceed to Chr'.stchurch. A small boy from Njgahere, named Ain s ley, on Thursday afternoon, while running up Mackay Street, came up against a standing motor-car, inflicting a cut on his head which required to have a number of stiches insertedThe same afternoon, Miss Lloyd, of Kotuku, while motoring into Greymouth, ran into the back of Mr D. Me Vicar’s butcher’s van, driven by Mr J. Kidd, on the Kainta Road. The latter had crossed over the crown of the road, and the lady driver attempted to pass him, her car stnkin the back of the van. Miss Lloyd’s ear was damaged extensively, whilst the other vehicle suffered very little damage. Another collision occurred on the Ivaiata straight near the Dobson Power House, at about 1.30 o’clock o n Friday morning. Two cars approaching each other met on a culvert. One of the motors, a Chevrolet, was badly wrecked, a front wheel being torn off, and the car being turned over on its sid,fe, while the hood and windscreen were badly smashed. There were four in the Chevrolet, which was travelling from Greymouh, and all received a hard shaking. One of them, Mr W. Burnett, of Reef ton,- sustained a cut over the left eye and also had his cheek bone fractured. The occupants of the other car, Messrs Howarth brothers, of Blackball, were uninjured. Thencar however, was considerably damaged. CAR OVER BRIDGE. FIVE PEOPLE HURT MASTERTON, Dec. 27. Plunging through the railings of an overhead railway bridge near Mauriceville, and dropping twentyfive feet to the railway lines in a cutting below, five occupants of a saloon car, had a narrow escape from death on Saturday morning. 5 The accident occurred while the car was trying to negotiate a dangerous bridge just south of Maurice ville station. A northward bound mail tiain whs held up at Masteton for fifteen minutes until the line was cleared.. The driver a man named Mallowes, of Lowo Hutt, escaped w : th a severe shaking. His wife suffered a badly hriiisod° back. His son, aged eight, sustained a severely cut hand, and Mrs Mallowes, senr., severe bruises and shock; and Mr Mallowes, senr., a a dislocated shoulder, and a badly cut face, and latter being admitted to tire Masterton Hospital. •ACCIDENTS IN ENGLAND. SENSATION AT THEATRE. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, December 27. Twenty-three persons were killed at Christmas in road and other accidents. The worst occurred at Staines, where a car, driven by Henry Burton Tate, a member of the famous sugar family, skidded, and was overthrown into a ditch, killing two sons, Arthur aged twenty-one, and Robin aged nineteen. Mr Tate was thrown clear. A retired school mistress was incinerated at Bayswater, her clothes alighting while she was cooking the Christmas dinner. There was a holiday theatre sensation, unparallelled for generations, when three thousand people, .many of whom had booked seats weeks ahead, arrived at the London Hippodrome yesterday afternoon to find a typewritten notice on door®, that the spectacular revue (< Bow Bells” on which £25,000 had been spent, was postponed owing to the mechanical difficulty in the handling of 'the new heavy velvet, scenery, and numerous scenic effects.