ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9075, 27 April 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

BY TETiEGBAMI ■ PIiESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, April 26. A young man named Alfred Royle, employed on the permanent way by the Railway Department, was brought to Auckland hospital from Tuakau (Waikato) last evening, suffering from a severe scalp wound. He had a narrow escape from death. He was working on the line when a train came along, and he, for some reason, stepped back partly on the line, being knocked down by the train. A man named Louis Perrin, whilst stepping off a .tram car in Queen Street, last night, met with an accident, which resulted in his having his right foot taken off. Lucilla Rose Hutchinson, five years r.f age. daughter of a grocer residing in Karangahape Road, fell under a timber waggon and was killed. PALMEKSTON N., April 26. While Mr George Green, a wellknown flaxmill owner, was motoring from Palmerston to Foxton today, he felt ill, and endeavoured to attract the attention of another passing car. They did not realise what was the matter, and Mr Green fainted, and his car plunged over the road into the Mangaone creek, a dive of seventeen f£et, breaking the bridge protections on its way. There was very little water in the and the car was badly smashed, Green escaping with a shaking and cuts on his face.