ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
Auckland, Dec. iS
A youth, 18 years oi age, aud as yet unidentified, was walking past the new post office in lower Queen Street this morning, when a gale blew down a hoarding which threw him against the rail erected for the protection oi pedestrians from the street traffic. He was killed instantly, his neck being broken. A boy crawled from beneath the hoarding uninjured. A mau passing had his head cut, but otherwise escaped injury.
A nine-months-old daughter of Daniel King, a resident of Ponsonby, was found dead in bed on Sunday morning. The child slept in the bed with her parents, and was apparently suffocated. It is surmised she was overlain. Dunedin, Dec. 16.
James Cray died at Port Chalmers from the effect of an accident on the steamer Paparoa by tailing down a hatchway. Deceased, who was a widower, leaves a family of five.
Auckland, December 18
Gerald Byrue, locomotive fireman, aged twenty four years, was drowned in St. George’s Bay yesterday afternoon through the swamping of a dinghy.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1084, 19 December 1911, Page 3
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175ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1084, 19 December 1911, Page 3
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