ACCIDENTS AND FANALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 June 1922, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FANALITIES.

STRUCK BY LIFT. ' Ry Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, June 12. Norman Brough, aged 18, and an apprentice employed by the Electric Construction Company, Ltd., working in the well of a lift at the premises of Milne and Choyce, drapers, Queen Street, apparently leaned into the well as the lift descended, for it struck him on the head and shoulders, which are very badly crushed. He was removed to the hospital in a serious condition. Death from burns. Hamilton, June 12. Clarence Arthur Burgess, who was severely burned in a benzine accident at Gordon, died in hospital last night. A SHUNTER KILLED Dunedin, June 12. Thomas M’Mullan, a shunter, was killed this morning. He slipped and fell while attempting to step on to the cow-catcher attached to the engine, his head getting beneath the cow-catcher. His heck was broken and his head badly smashed. He leaves a wife and large family. A MOTOR COLLISION. Palmerston NOTth, June 12. At Shannon on Saturday, night a mo-tor-car and gig collided and William Davidson, employed at Mangaoho, an occupant of the car, was struck by the shaft of the gig and was seriously injured. H. MTntosh, of Makerua, was severely cut by glass. Both were taken to the North Hospital. Later. William Davidson, injured in the motor collision at Shannon, d ? «d this afternoon.