ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 20, 24 May 1915, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

FATAL TUNNEL ACCIDENT. Per Press .ussooiatbon. Auckland, May 22. A serious railway accident occurred at Kaikohe railway tunnel yesterday, by which Mr Charles Betts, one of the partners to the contract, was badly injured and Peter Maloney was killed. The latter was a native ol the West Coast. The cause of the accident was that one of the shoulder bars in the tunnel suddenly gave way, pinning the ♦wo men down. Both had to bs dugout.

KILLED BY THE LIFT. Wellington, May 22. Mr G. Pinnock, a well-known Weljlington hotel-keeper, was killed on [Saturday in a lilt accident at ttic toljumliia Hotel. He bad put bis head .through an aperature in one of the lift doors to call to someone below, and I just at that moment the lift descended | from the floor above and came down upon him before he had time to withdraw his head, inflicting injuries which were almost instantly fatal. He was quite beyond hope when medical assistance arrived. The late Mr Pinnock was an elderly man. He is survived by Mrs Pinnock and three sous and two daughters. He had been some twenty-live years in Wellington.