ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
Auckland, Last Night. Mrs Isabella Johnson, aged 57, the wife of Clifford John Johnson, engineer at Western Springs pumping station, was drowned yesterday morning in an overflow race nearby. She had been in ill-health for some time, and indications are that she fell into the race during a fainting fit. ( ] Auckland, Last Night. Five men were injured yesterday afternoon by the capsize of a motor bus conveying 16 passengers, mostly footballers, on the Razorback Hill, near Pukekohe. The bus ran into sand and capsized. William Garvie, of Mauku, sustained several fractured ribs, and his son, John Garvie, a fractured thigh. M. • Wright broke a collarbone, and the others injured were L. and J. Franklin. Auckland, Last Night. An elderly man, not yet identified, died in hospital last night as the result of being run over at about two o’clock in the afternoon, at the level railway crossing at George St, Kingston, by a train going to Henderson. His left foot was neaily severed and his skull fractured and he. had two large scalp wounds.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2586, 29 May 1923, Page 1
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177ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2586, 29 May 1923, Page 1
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