ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 8 March 1927, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

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ASHBURTON, March 7. Mr'H. G. Kemp, Engineer-Secre-jtary to the Electric Power Board, received serious injury yesterday jjwhen the siaff were installing a jnew plant at the sub-station at. Mitcham. His head canxe in contact with a high voltage wire, and Mr jKemp was unconscious for a- quarter of an liour. He is now in a pri|vate hospital. His conditxon is causing no alarm. ELTHAM, March 7. Blanche Ivy Tiplady, 29 years old, jflaughter of the County Clerk at El- . .tha mand assistant in her father's ■jofhce, was found dead in bed on jSunday aboxxt noon. Deceased was |n good health on Saturday even?ng, meeting her father on his re-, jturn from a holiday and making arjrangements for a picnic on Sunday. jBoctors state that she had heen dead fr some hours. A post mortem is being held to-day. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. While inspecting the undercarriage of a. lift in the store of the "Lyttelton Times" building this afternoon an elderly man, John Thompson, vemployed by the Company, was killed by the sudden descent of the lift. The accident apparently was due to the grippers on which Thompson \yas working becoming loose, with the resnlt that Hxe lift, whicli was suspended soxne distance above fell, striking deceased on ihe head. Death was instantaneous. Thompson was a marri.ed man with three children.