ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 181, 30 January 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A CHILD DROWN'ED. "• ; , By Telegraph—Press Association. Foxton, Yesterday. Stanley William Gay, aged lO'/a, fell oft' the jetty at the Heads yesterday <• while playing. There was a strong runout at the time, and the body was carried out to sea and Ims not yet been recovered. Several of his playmates witnessed the accident. The boy's par- 5 ents reside at the seaside. , . ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED. C'hristchurch, Last Night. The body of William George Morris, who was drowned in the safety area whilst bathing in the surf at New .-1 Brighton on Monday, was recovered at 's'i about two o'clock this afternoon on the V; New Brighton side of the Sumner estuary by Constable Hampton, of Sumner. ' The body was taken to the Christchurcli ■ morgue, and an inquest held. A verdict was returned of accidental drown- ■.< ing. The suggestion had been made j that the deceased, and his companion .who was rescued, were under the influence of liquor when they went into the V water, but the latter said they had not . , •; had a drink that day. A FATAL FALL. \j Napier, Last Night. David Wynd, chief engineer of thi «, Mamari, Bow loading in the Bay, was A' found in a bunker this morning. It ' is supposed lie fell down while inspeot- ' > ing. 110 was removed to the hospital, where lie divd. lie was 3.5 years oj ' age. and has a wife and four children in London. , . I