ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 219, 24 December 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A MAN KILLED. By Telegraph.—Presa Association. Ashburton, Yesterday. A married man named Walter Jones,' while working at the Fairfield Freezing Works this morning, accidentally fell down a chute, and sustained injuries so serious that he died shortly after his removal to the hospital. DEATH FROM SCALDS. Wellington, Yesterday. Ernest Sievers, aged six, who fell into a tub of boiling water at Takapu, near Johnsonville, a fortnight ago, was brought into the hospital here yesterday, and died a few hours later. KILLED IN THE STREET. Auckland, Last Night. An old man named James Berry Hoyes, a resident of Devonport, met with a fatal accident about three o'clock this afternoon. He was crossing the road in Queen street, near Fort street, and hesitated a moment, apparently undecided what to do, when a bicycle, slowly ridden by a man named Bush, collided with him, knocking the old man down. Hoyee was taken lo the hospital, where he was found to be suffering from concussion. He gradually succumbed, and died at 5.30 p.m. Hia age was 76 years. The cyclist, who was on the proper side of the road, received a nasty tumble.

FURTHER PARTICULARS. " The Hawera Star states that the difficulty and danger were accentuated by the fact that one hundred cords of wood were slacked near the whare, and had caught fire. Three men slept in the factory and sixteen in the whare, about a chain away. The alarm was first given by a man in the whare who was awakened by the glare. Some difficulty was experienced in getting the men out of the factory. They lost everything, and one of them, Maude, had a very narrow escape from being burnt. There were seven waggon loads of cheese ready packed at the factory, and these were completely destroyed. The 'fire made an absolute clean sweep.of the buildings. The presumption is that it caught in the boiler-house.' The directors successively in office have been most enterprising men, and improvement after improvement at very great cost had been made at the factory until its machinery and equipment were first-class. By all in the district acquainted with the dairy industry the character of the loss and the dislocation it will cause in business will be readily understood. It is the largest concern in Taranaki, if not in New Zealand. Last year's balance-sheet shows that it dealt with over fifty million pounds of milk, and that its turnover was about £130,000. The destruction of such a factory just in jthe height of the season is a most serious misfortune for the settlers of the district. Arrangements were promptly made, assisted most cordially by the management of adjoining companies, the Riverdale and the Joll co-operatives, to divert supplies to their factories, and this will modify the otherwise disastrous effect of the fire.