ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
KILLED BY MOTOR LORRY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Taihape, Last Night. A lad named Hohaia Potaka, aged ten, was killed instantly by a motor lorry, a wheel passing orer and crushing his head flat. The deceased was a son of a well-known and highly respected resident of Utiku. MOTORIST’S SERIOUS INJURY. xTauranga, Last Night. J. Wintie, proprietor of one of the service cars running between Tauranga and Matamata, met with a serious accident this evening, necessitating the amputation of his left leg just below the knee. He was cranking the car alongside a tree, when the machine, which had been left in gear, sprang forward, the end of the spring catching Wintie’s leg against the tree and almost severing it. CHILD DIES FROM BURNS. Gisborne, Last Night. A two-year-old child, Ellen Austin Hill, died 'in the Cook hospital as a result of her clothes catching fire. It is stated that the child was playing with other children at tea time, when they became possessed of matches, which ignited and set fire to the deceased’s clothes. DIED AT A CIRCUS. Gisborne, Last Night. While attending a circus performance at Tologa Bay on Monday evening a young man named Gerald Fitzgerald expired from heart disease- ,
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 January 1921, Page 5
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