ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2271, 3 May 1921, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Auckland, Yesterday. The body of D. McDade, a greaser on the ♦steamer Matatua, was found in a vacant lot in town. A post mortem showed that a piece of meat was lodged in the throat, and death was probably due to choking. Whakatane, Yesterday. George Michael Dalton, years of age, a farmer at Taneatua, was found dead at midnight on Saturday by a. parly which was searching for him. The body was alongside a fence, with a gunshot wound over the heart. Dalton left home on Saturday morning to do a little shooting, and failed to return. Auckland, May L A man named Tom AYooley died in the hospital as the result of burns sustained from boiling .tar while working at Weslfield. The deceased was 37 years of age, and was employed as a freezing works band.

Mr A. Brown, a member of the I’ohangina football club, had the misfortune to have a leg broken in two places in the course of the game with High School, at Palmerston, on Saturday. He was conveyed to (he hospital, where lie is progressing as well as can be expected. A boy named Charlie Graham, aged 1.1 years, who had one of his eyes injured as the result of an accidental contact with a pair of scissors, underwent an operation in the Masterton Hospital for the removal of the eye. The girl Bella Hobson, .12 years of age, who was admitted lo the Waikato Hospital on Monday, suffering from a fracture of the skull, died at the institution on Thursday evening. The injuries were caused through the girl coining into contact with a revolving belt; and being drawn-into milking machinery which was operating at a Kaipaki farm. A man named McDowell, a hushman, was severely injured by being caught between a log and a hauler at. Oluikuiie. lie was taken to Taihape Hospital, and eventually succumbed lo his injuries.