ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9678, 30 December 1909, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

By Telegraph-Press Association. HAWERA, December 29.. Herbert John Pullenger, labourer, aged about 30, single, was drowned in a pond sixteen inches deep at Normanby this morning. Xhe deceased is supposed to have fallen into the water while suffering irom an epileptic iit, to which he was subject. CHRIoTCHUKCH, December 29. Jas. Steeple, employed at a quarry at Hornby, was caught in the leltiugof some stone crushing machinery and was whirled round by the shafting. Whsn he wah picked up it was found that he had sustained a rvere injuries, several of his ribs beingbroken. He was conveyed to the hospital as soon as possible, but died shortly after admission. At an inquest touching the death of Cbas. Muasen, 66 years of age. an old age pensioner, who was found! drowned in the river at Avonside yesterday morning, William cincock stated that be saw deceased about 10.3 o'clock in the evening before the body was found, apparently on his homeward way. He appeared to be under the influence of liquor. The coroner returned a verdict of ' 'Found Drowned." About 9.30 a.m. to-day Thomas Marsn-, a farm labourer, employed at SiiM-'yuV.ri, was on a haystaclr,' stac it,.' hay with a patent hay lifter' i when t >e anchor, which held the pole down, gave way, and the pole immediately flew up and hit Marion on the back of the head, killing him instantaneously. At the inquest the evidence of William Woods, who was working with Marson, who was a married man, showed that the anchor become loosened by the recent rain, and the Jpole had sprung upwards with great force. A verdicfc was returned that deceased was killed through being struck on the haad with a hay lifter,