CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.
NAPIER'S UNIQUE RECORD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, September 21. A chapter of accidents occurred in Napier to-day. At 5.30 a.m. a fire broke out in the main business block and destroyed a shop and £2OOO worth- of goods. At 10.30 J. Reach, a small storekeeper at Port Aliuriri, was thrown out of a cart and had his skull fractured. At 2.30 D. Grant, an .employee of Barry Bros., broke a leg in a coal yard. At 3.30 a married woman, laden with parcels, out shopping, and passing under a new building (a -picture theatre) was struck on the head with a bucket of cement from a scaffolding and sustained a fracture of the skull. The diphtheria epidemic continues, and two patients were admitted to the hospital during the day, and also one of scarlet fever. During the afternoon a man chased his wife with an axe through the streets of Napier South. The police are investigating.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1916, Page 7
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159CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1916, Page 7
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