ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 169, 4 December 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

CHILD'S BODY FOUND. By Telegraph—Press Association. Hastings, Tuesday. The body of Louis Donald McGiMvray, aged two and a half years, who disappeared from his parents' residence at Pakipaki on August 7 last, was found on the bank of the Awanui stream, near Pukehou, last evening. The boy's hat was found on the bank of the creek near his home soon after he was missed, but although the police searched for several days they could not find any trace of the body where the remains were now found, about three miles from where the lad was supposed to have fallen in. The body had evidently been washed up by the floods in September. The parents now reside in Wellington. ACCIDENT AT WOOLLEN MILLS. Wellington, Tuesday. There was a serious accident at the Petone Woollen Mills this morning. A pipe connected with the steam press in the hosiery room burst, and two married men, named W. Elder and A. Walker, were scalded, the former about the arms and the latter about the face and head. The injured men were removed to the Wellington Hospital. A MOTOR ACCIDENT. Timaru, Last Night. A motor car accident which is likely to result fatally to one of the occupants occurred in town this afternoon. James Esler, a well-to-do farmer of Sutherlands, was leaving town for home in his ear, accompanied by W. Wall, of Pleasant Point, and Mr.'and Mrs. Sutherland, a young couple. He had gone down a steep grade at a good pace to the opposite rise, and at the foot changed his mind and turned into a street along the hollow. The car skidded and capsized, and threw all four out, and Esler was pinned with his head crushed beneath the side footboard. Wall sustained a broken wrist. Mr. and Mrs. Sutherland were merely shaken.