ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 82, 3 May 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A TIMELY KKSCCE. ' ' By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, Last Night, f There was a sensational incident at the ■ breakwater at mid-day to-day. Two c youths, Harold Fimke, son of the manI ager of the llawke's liay Soap and Tannery Company's works at Awatoto, and . his cousin, lie it Jones, a visitor from 1 Oneitiinga, were photographing a heavy li sea wlien a wave lifted them olf their [. feet. They drifted some distance, but fortunately were able to swim. James l' Tonkin, nil employee of the I'erroConcrete Company, plunged ill to tlia ) rescue with a line and plank, and { through his gallantry both the youths r were saved. Jones was pretty well ex haunted, but quickly recovered, l'unke . is to be commended for the manner he kept by his cousin ill the emergency. I BOTTLE-GATHEIiER'S DEATH. ™ Dunedin, Last Night, n A man named John Whitford, supY posed to be about 50 years of age, was j found sitting dead in ail outbuilding 111 J Walker Street this morning. Deceased was well known as a bottle gatherer, and. when his clothes were searched, 0 bank deposit receipts for i'.lHOl) were found in them. Whitford, who had been ,1 a sufferer from heart disease, is not , known to have any relatives in' New lC ' Zealand.