ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 39, 21 January 1916, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. Wellington, January 19. A small boy, named Roy Percival Kerr, eleven years of age, was drowned in a pool near the Karori reservoir on Tuesday afternoon. It appears that deceased had been playing with two other boys in the vicinity of the pool, and at about 3.30 o’clock he was discovered in the water, dead. His companions, who were seen with him half-an-hour previously, had disappeared. Auckland, January 19. William Manning, a flax-cutter, aged ■‘forty-three, fell from a punt at the, Kangitaiki outlet and was drowned. At the inquest it was stated that deceased sank in fifteen seconds. A verdict of accidentally drowned was returned. Dunedin, January 19. Frank Martinelli, a leader of the orchestra at the Grand Picture Theatre, was drown eel in Broad Bay this morning while boating. The body was recovered. Christina Boefi'ler, an elderly married woman, was tending a lire which she bad put on outside her dwellinghouse at Waitahuna Gully, when hei dress caught tire, and she shortly afterwards succumbed to her injuries. Christchurch, January 20. An inquest on the bodies of three children (Vera, Olive, and Sam Mumford), who lost their lives by drowning in tln> pond at Riccarton racecourse yesterday afternoon was held to-night. A verdict of “found drowned” was returned, no blame being attachable to anyone.

.Mr W. H. Wanklyn. secretary of the Canterbury Jockey Club, stated that the Club would take steps to have all dangerous spots around the lake fenced off with wire netting. Wellington. January 20.

J. Chapman, about twenty-seven years old, a goods porter on believing duty at the Petone station, met lus death in a shocking manner, a little after seven o’clock to-night. While engaged in shunting he slipped and fell under a moving tram, being frightfully mangled. Both his legs and both arms were almost severed, and bis skull was fractured. Death must have been instantaneous.