CASUALTIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 December 1920, Page 2

CASUALTIES.

A CROP IN CHRISTCHURCH. UNUSUALLY HEAVY IN HOLIDAY' SEASON. Christchurch, Dec. 27. Sydney Reginald S, Scott, aged 37, who resided in the old police station at Woolsion, died suddenly on Christmas Eve. He had been to town to buy some toys, and on his way back called at the butcher's shop of Mr. R. Hickison, Ferry Road, where lie was seized with illness, and died suddenly. At an inquest held before Mr. S. E. McCarthy, coroner, a verdict was returned, in accordance with the medical testimony of Dr. Temple, that death ivas due to heart failure. The deceased leaves a wife and two children.

R«uben Henry, aged 63, a fellmonger, of Cheviot Street, Invercargill, who arrived in Christchurch a few days ago for a holiday with his wife, died Buddenly at the People's Palace. Henry had complained of pains in the chest, and was lying down in a room when he was seized, apparently with a heart attack, and died almost immediately. Dr Temple was called in, but could only pronounce life to be extinct. As the result of a collision at Ashburton betwecji a motor-car, driven by W. Walker, and a motor-cycle, ridden by Harold Baynes, the latter had his leg broken. Baynes had motored through from Temuka, with the intention of spending Christmas with his brother at Seafield.

George Lintern was admitted to the Christchurch hospital on Friday, suffering from a broken ankle, caused by his colliding with a motor-car while riding a motor-cycle.

Frederick Arps, of Belfast, was a passenger in a side-chair attached to a motor-cycle, which overturned on Christmas Day, and threw him on to the road. He received a severe shaking, necessitating his removal to the Christchurch hospital.

As a result of a gun exploding While being cleaned, Victor Watson, living at 27, Allen tStreet, who was camping for the holidays at the end of Gardiner's ftoad. near the WaiJnakariri river, received the charge in the abdomen. An operatjpn wa; performed at the public hospital, and the patient is reported to be progressing favorably.