ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
Gisborne, Jan. 4. A two-year-old child, named Ellen Austin Hill, .died at the Cook Hospital us the result of her clothes catching fire. - It is stated that the child was playing with other child-t ren at tea time, when, by some means, they became possessed of matches, which ignited and set fire to deceased’s clothes. Gisborne, Jan. 4. ■ B r hile attending a circus performance at Tolago Bay on Monday evening, a young man named Gerald Fitzgerald expired from heart disease. Tauranga, Jan. 4. Mr J. B'intle, proprietor of one of the service ears running ‘between Tauranga and Matamata, met with a serious accident this evening, necessitating the amputation of his left leg just below the knee. He was cranking a car alongside a tree, but the car had been left in gear, and sprang forward, the end of the spring catching his leg against tbo tree, almost severing it.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2223, 6 January 1921, Page 3
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153ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2223, 6 January 1921, Page 3
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