ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 42, 30 May 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

TWO SUDDEN' DEATHS. BOTH AT FOOTBALL MATCHES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. A sad fatality occurred on the Athletic Park yesterday afternoon during the interval between the first and second spells of the Pone'ke-St. Janice match. Mr. Frederick Robert Hills, residing in Daniel-street and employed .by the Prouse Lumber Company, dropped dead. His son was playing for St. .lames, and was not aware of the fatality till 'he saw the foody of his father being carried across the field on a stretcher, just when the second spell was about to commence. Mrs. Mills, too, was sitting in the grandstand when she was informed of the death of her husband. The fatality cast quite a gloom over tlie match, and the news spread very quickly amongst the spectators, who-must have numbered six thousand or nro're. A 'suggestion was made that the match should be abandoned, but it was' deemed advisable to go on. As soon as the doctors had pronounced life extinct the body was removed to the residence of deceased. The cause of death has been certified as heart failure. Feilding, List Xight. An elderly man named Flyger. a wellknown resident of Feilding, dropped dead while watching the football match on Saturday between teams from Feilding and Palmcretou. Death is staled to have been due to apoplexy.