ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3589, 28 September 1920, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

UNKNOWN WOMAN DROWNED

DUNEDIN, Sept. 27. The body of a woman between 50 and 60 years of age was found in the estuary a. Sawyer’s Bay to-day. The body has not yet been identified.. A coat and hat were-., previously found on the railway line adjoining.

MAN '.S ABM TORN OFF.

AUCKLAND, Sept. 27

While working at a concrete-miser at Alexandra Park • this morning a married man named Peter Brady, 'who lives at Onehunga, had an arm torn out by the socket. Mr. Brady is employed by Mr. John Rowe, who has a contract in connec.ion with the erection of a new grandstand for the Auckland Trotting Chib. The man'was attending a mechanical" concrete-mixer, and the wind catching a sacking apron he was wearing blew it into the cog mechanism of the mixer. Brady put Out his left hand instinctively to save himself being dragged in, but it was caught in the cogs and the arm tom right out of the socket. The ambulance was senf, for. and the unfortunate man was taken to the Hospital, where amputation was found to be necessary.

RETURNED SOLDIER DROWNED.

THAMES. This Day

A re unicd soldier named Walter Cioke, fell into the flooded Ngarua Creek at Kaihcre, Hauraki Plains, this m,qj|'iiing, and was drowned. Deceased wno was employed by the Lands Department, suffered from gas and was apparently unable to struggle out. His wife gave the t alarm but when the body was recovered life was extinct.

IN WIRELIfSS, RANGE. The following- vessels arc in wireless range to-day:—With Auckland; Kurow, Kanna, Kauri. Tahiti, Maheno, Arahura and Garbata. With Awanui: Tahiti, Maheno, Waitemata, Iceland, Kurow and Kanna. With Wellington; Mamari, Wahine, Westralia, Mahena, Tarawera and Iceland. With Chntbams; Tairoa and oKnt.

NORTHOLM AEROPLANE ACCIDENT.

DEATH OF MISS DE TRAFFORD.

LONDON Sept. 26,

The victims of the Nor holm aeroplane accident included Miss De Trafford, the first, woman to pass the Air

Ministry tests.. She was known, owing to her clever work, as the “flying genius.”