ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17280, 22 September 1916, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

ACCIDENTS AT NAPIER-. ""'[Fiat Press Association'.] NAPIER, September 21. A chapter ,of accidents occurred in Napier to-day. At 10.30 J. Peach, a small storekeeper at Port Aliuriri, was thrown out of a' cart and his skull fractured. At 2.30, D. Grant, an employee of Messrs Barry Brothers, broke his leg in a coal yard. ’ At 3.30 a married woman, laden with parcels after shopping, was passing undor a new building for,a picture theatre when she was struck on the hesd bv a bucket of cement from the scaffolding, and sustained a fracture, of the skqjl.

DEATH FROM CARDIAC SYNCOPE. Arthur Henry, aged sixty-six years, married, residing at 21, Moa Place, dropped dead yesterday whilst working at a building in course of erection at Slater Street, St 'Albans. The body was removed to the Morgue, where an inquest .was held last evening by the Coroner, Mr H. W. Bishop. Evidence was given by tho deceased’s widow and Dr Borrie, and the Coroner returned a verdict that death was due to syncope. '