ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3735, 29 December 1927, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

BOY’S FEET CUT OFF. Hamilton, Last Night. Frightful injuries were sustained by* the three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Hargreaves, new arrivals at Tirau, when the child had both feet cut off by a mower yesterday. The child hid under a fringe of an overhanging macrocarpa hedge when the mower drawn by a horse swept underneath causing the terrible accident. The child is reported to be progressing well at the Matamata hospital.

WOMAN’S BODY IS FOUND ON FORESHORE. Thames, Last Night. The body of Fanny Caldicutt, the married daughter of F. Woods of Thames, was found on the foreshore this morning. , Deceased left home last night. A search failed to reveal her whereabouts till children playing on the foreshore discovered’the body. Deceased has been in a depressed state lately. r

YOUNG WOMAN DROWNED. New Plymouth, December 28. Florence Hinckman, a single woman, aged 21, was drowned on Tuesday evening when bathing near (lie base of Paritutu.

Two young* boys who were alsG bathing left the water and proceed ed to dress. They then missed the girl, but the accident was not reported to the police till this morning. A search is now being made for the body.

MOTOR CYCLIST INJURED.

Rotorua, December 28,

A motor-cyclist, named Patrick Forme, sustained a broken leg in a collision with a car and ’another motor cyclist Chris Anderson, who was struck by a projecting benzine ease on a passing ear on the main highway, also broke a leg. Two motor cars collided on the Taupo road. One ear was badly smashed, but the occupants were not seriously hurt. Tauniarunui, December 28.

Roy Grnbner, a motor cyclist, collided with a car driven by H. Simpson at Fanthorpe’s corner. Grubner sustained a compound fracture of the leg and was taken to the hospital.

On Monday afternoon a youth named Cyril Coomb, of Palmerston North, was carried away by the current while bathing in the Manawatu l iver, a mile and- a half above the Fitzherbert Bridge and was drowned. Two other young men, who attempted to rescue him had a narrow escape from a similar fate.

On Saturday evening a yacht capsized near Somes Island, Wellington, and two young men aged between 18 and 20, David Launder and Donald Mackay, both of Wellington, lost their lives. Brave attempts at rescue were made by a survivor, Keith Staff, also of Wellington, and also by a young woman, Miss B. Bennett, who was staying on the island.

The body of Mrs. E. Ross, a widow, aged 78, was found in about three feet of water, in a concrete tank at the back of her residence in Napier road, Palmerston North,* about 6.30 a.m. yesterday. The deceased had lately been worrying over the loss of a. daughter, who was killed, as the result of the recent. level-crossing accident.

Frederick Shields, aged 68, a plasterer, died suddenly when bathing in shallow water at Caroline Bay, Timaru, on Monday. Following a dimmer at the Bay lie went into the sea and it is supposed was sized by cramp.