ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 68, 11 July 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

IPib Pbkii Association.] Wairoa, July 10. Robert Lynch, a barber, was found drowned in the river to-day. Christchurch, July 10. A laborer named R. Crump, working at bridge-building between Harwarden and Hurunui, fell off a derrick and sustained severe concussion of the brain. He was taken to the Har- , warden nursing home, where he died •arly this morning. Clarence Moffatt, a single man aged 22 years, and employed at the Islington Freezing Works, was feeding fat into * mincing machine on Thursday morning, when his left hand was taken off above the wrist. Moffatt was admitted into the Hospital early in the afternoon. The consequences of the accident which Mr H. Hornblow met with on the slopes of Mt. Egmont on Sunday last were more serious than were fit first anticipated. Experiencing considerable pain in right arm /re-r ports the Argus) Mr Hornblow visitel Dr. Cooper, who found that the arm was broken, and Mr Hornblow will have to undergo, an operation. Mr Eigar, of Hawera, who sustained a fall on the Same occasion, suffered somewhat severely from shock and was unalbe to leave his bed until yesterday.