ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1922, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

KILLED BY A FALL. By Telegraph.—Press Association Masterton, Last Night. Alexander Duncan, principal lightkeeper at Castlepoint, to which he was recently transferred from Puysegur, was killed on Saturday evening. After lighting up, he got a ladder to attend to the telephone wires on the track, and apparently fell from the top, fracturing his skull', being found an hour later. He leaves a widow and family of three. BOY’S HEAD CRUSHED. Greymouth, Last Night. Thomas MeGarr, seven years of age, was killed at 4.30 p.m. on Saturday in Victoria Park. He was riding on a track roller, and slipped through the frame work, his head being caught between it and the roller. The skull was fractured, the head being crushed, and he died while being taken to the surgery. The boy had previously been warned. ACCIDENT ON MT. MESSENGER. A motor accident occurred on the other side of Mt. Messenger on Saturday. Mr. W. McKenzie, stock buyer for Newton King, Ltd., was returning home when his car entered one of the nasty holes on the northern side of the hill. He accelerated to get out, and in backing found the brakes unable to hold the machine on the greasy, muddy surface, and over the side of the hill the car fell. .Tn rolling over Mr. McKenzie and a lady passenger were thrown clear. The car dropped a distance of some sixty feet. Neither Mr. McKenzie nor the lady was seriously hurt. The car was fairly badly damaged.

How easily accidents may happen was demonstrated at Kawaroa Park on Friday, when the eldest boy of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Saunders, eight years of age, was watching another child on a swing when it struck him, breaking his thigh He was taken to the hospital, where he is doing us well as can be expected.