ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3618, 3 November 1920, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

SUPPOSED DROWNING ACCIDENT.

GISBORNE, Nop. 2

The police received information tonight from Hicks Bay that a returned soldier named Frederick Trenne, aged about forty years, employed in the new freezing works, disappeared from a party fishing off the rocks near Hicks Bay on Sunday. It is presumed he was washed off the rocks and drowned. Search parties are now out.

A FATAL FALL., DUNEDIN, Nov. .2, This,. morning a tiler named Joseph L. Durham, one of a party of workmen engaged in the construction of a new building for the Linly dairy factory, fell from a fifteen-feet scaffold to the concrete floor below and was killed instantly. The inquest shows that the couse of death was concussion of the brain following a fracture of the base and vault of the skull. Deceased was .13 or 34 years of age, single, and served with the Fifth Eeinforcement, returning To New Zealand in A m il, 19 ID.

GISBORNE, This day,

Further details of the Te Aararoa drowning fatality show that Frederick Trenue, a returned soldier, with four years’ service, employed at the Hicks’ Bay freezing works as a carpenter, went out with four companions to fish from the rocks near Matakaoa Point on Sunday morning. He was missed by his companions, and oa their return home, Trenue had not arrived. On Monday morning over one hundred men from the works went our and searched the coast'and the neig bouring hills, but no trace wa« fouim except a fishing line still in the water. The sea, near the Point is treacherous. Trenue had been warned not t°l ‘venture too far out on the rocks. He was a single man, forty years of age and came from Auckland. His mother is thought to be living in Adelaide. That feverish feeling from cold in the head instantly rel’eved hy NAZOL. Splendid for clearing blocked passages in nose and throat,

INTERESTING MARRIAGE. LONDON, Nov. 2. Jose Collins, the actress, a daughter of the late Lottie Collins (of Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay fame) married Lord Robert Innes-Ker, brother of the Duke of Roxburgh, at a London registry office! Miss Collins will not leave the stage. IN MEMORIAM. PARIS, Nov. 2. In connection w r ith All Saints ' Day ! celebrations, a delegation of Canadians motored to the war area and decorated all Canadian graves, including those at Viray, with flags apd flowers, there.