ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1932, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

(Per Press Association — Copyright.) COLLISION IN TIMARU. I* CHILD’S FACE CUT. TIMARU, July 2, ift'-A cqllision occurred at 10 o’clock this morning at the intersection of King and William Streets, between a lorry . owned by the Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association and a Ford jilorry being driven from Pareora, to Timaru by Mr F. G. Shuker. [ The Rord lorry was badly knocked -about. Mrs M’lntyre, o'f Pareora, a passenger, was holding her two-year-cdd son Donald in her lap. The impact smashed a- glass windscreen and the broken pieces cut the child’s face badly. He was removed to hospital. PASSENGER OVERBOARD. AUCKLAND, July 2. h A-'irfa-n 'fell overboard fijonkthe Union Company’s steamer Waipahi three' hours after the vessel left Suva for Auckland on Thursdrjy nft'ern<ldn, After ho had been rescued the vessel returned to Suva and'landed him before slip resumed her trip-to Auckland. She is d'm here, on Tuesday morning. I TWO M e N DROWNED, FISHING CRAFT AT, ANCHOR FOR THREE DAY. WHANGAREI, July 2. A dunl drowning tragedy was disclosed this morning off Taiharuru, bn the East Coast. Two Whnngarei fishermen, Alach and Frank Glucina, set off in an auxiliary boat last Sunday Much anxiety was’ occasioned over their failure to return, and a launch was dispatched in search. . / Maoris on ‘the coast observed a fishing craft at anchor for three clays, and this morning discovered ’ the body of Alach tangled in a fishing line in a swamped dighy. There was 'n o sign anywhere of his companion. The police are investigating.