HOLIDAY MISHAPS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1932, Page 5

HOLIDAY MISHAPS

A HEAVY LIST

SUMMER BATHERS RESCUED.

(Per Press Association Copyright.) CHRISTOHUItpH, Dec. 27. A dangerous current oiitsidetheoffioial bathing area at Sumner, was nearly accountable for . a triple ■ fatal-' ity yesterday afternoon'. " • . i When an alarm wak given two young women and a young man, visitors from - Auckland w'ene seen to be battliiig -against .the current !. that was fast sweeping them, front,' the shore. . Surf Club members quickly had the reel out,' and swam to the rescue. The first woman, brought' in was able to walk away uuaided. The remaining tw o were much exhausted, • when the supports reached them. The young man was dazed arid ltad to be carried to the pavilion.. The .otheii , woman had to be ' treated with , resiiscitary methods for a short'period. After a rest, both recovered and rejoined their frionds. , ■ i CYCLIST SEVERELY INJURED. INVERCARGILL, December 26. ■ Numerous h«»d. injuries and internal abdominal injuries of a 1 serious nature wore received on Saturday evening - by Stanley Brown, a married man; ‘He Was riding a motor-cycle and collided with a train. ;

HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS

YOUNG GIRL KILLED. , HAMILTON, December 27. Fatal injuries were sustained by Ellen Dorothy Tyrell, 16, as the result of a collision between a car in which she was travelling; - arid a lorry, on a road near Matamata at midnight, on Christmas Eve. The driver-of the car, James Gatiley, aged 20, mechanic, had his right arm amputated. Another.-passenger in the car, Joan Hancock, aged 17, sustained abrasions- and shook. , ; -v • MORE MOTORING VICTIMS.

/ DUNEDIN, December 27. Four accidents occurred over the weed-end., ,V. '. Redmond Creed, - single, .sustained severe head injuries when his car skidded in' loose gravel and struck a post. . ■■■»•' , William 1 Brown 7-5,. was knocked down by a car at Henley sustaining injuries to the head and a fractured leg.\ 1 «■; **. */' " S* r -« * A collision between two . oars resulted in John Aytt>, 21,. resident of Invercargill being admitted to 1 the hospdtai with head, injuries. . Colin, McMillan,' -aged two, fractured a leg ns the result of a fall,

AMBULANCE KEPT BUSY.;,

WELLINGTON, December 27. ' The ambulance and medical services spent a busy Christmas tTiia year. The number of accidents requiring attention was larger thap for some years past. Fully a score occurred within Wellington and the surrounding districts, hut non© was fatal. Two men had their skulle fractured by falls, but both are progressing favourably. Motor accidents contributed substantially to the total. fifteen Lives lost. " SYDNEY, December 27. Australia’s known violent death roll for Boxing Day was fifteen,' of whom nine were killed in car accidents and three drowned.