ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1627, 21 October 1916, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Christchurch, October 11). A strange accident, which resulted in the death of a boy named Sydney Thomas Thompson, the live-year-old son of Mr A. S. Thompson, of Waltham road, Sydenham, occurred in Waltham road. Thompson, with several other children, was playing near a cart from which packing cases were being unloaded. The driver of the cart, with the help of some other men, was shifting a large ease. .V strung wind was blowing, and as the ease was lowered they told the children to get out of the way. The ease was Jet down, and they then found Thompson was underneath it. He died shortly afterwards. Dannevirke, October ID. The (diarred remains of Harry Wilson, aged eighty, were found in a hut at Takapau, wiiieh was destroyed by tire on W ednesday night. Hokitika, Oet. 20. Mr .John M’Millau, jobbing foreman on the West Coast Times, was found dead in his residence this morning. When last seen he was in his usual health. His wife and two children were away on a holiday. Deceased, whose age was 46, was a well-known forward of the Hokitika Eootball Club in the nineties, and was a prominent member of the Kilwinning Lodge.