ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
INJURIES PROVE FATAL. PEDESTRIAN KNOCKED DOWN. AUCKLAND, December 12. The death occurred in tlie Auckland . | Hospital yesterday mo iling of Mrs ■ Susanna Austin, aged 76, a widow, of Jubilee Avenue, Ellerslie, who was knocked down by a motor vemeie at . the corner of Great South Road and 1 Manukau Road shortly a-ter noon on Thursday. | An inquest was opened yesterday before Mr TV. R. McKean. After evidence of identification had been taken it was adjournedj sine die. WOUNDED BY HAYFORK. THAMES, December 12. A severe wound in the chest from a hayfork was received by Mr John Chap-, pell, of Coromandel. Mr Chappell was taking hay into a loft and when stooping the prong of a hayfork held by his assistant penetrated his cliest. | Tlie injured man was taken to the. Coromandel Hospital, where he is progressing favourably. SUICIDE ON H.M.S. DUNEDIN. AUCKLAND, December 13. i The cook on H.M.S. “Dunedip,”! Walter Frederick Perry, was found' hanged in the storeroom on the cruiser. ■| Perry, who was 26 year® of age, was an Imperial rating and he had been on the “Dunedin” for about three : months. At the inquest a verdict of suicide while depressed was returned.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1932, Page 3
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