ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10283, 11 July 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

By Telegraph — Press Association. WHANGAREI, Last Night. Jim McKay, aged 45, a married man with one ci: : M, was jammed between a log iand a standing tree in Finlayson's bu&h at Mangakahia on Saturday .afternoon. He died an hour later. WELLINGTON, Last Nieht. Frederick Hunt, aged 60 years?, for maaiy years a we!!-known nurseryman at Marten, but ocently residing hi Wellington, vrsz- knocked down by a motor car on Lamhton Quay this ■evening,' and -received such scriwis injuries that he died ■subsequently in the- hospital. He was a widow or. and leaves a grown-up family. NAPIER, Last Night. Joseph Snowden, a 'seaman on the Tarawera, was billed instantaneously as the boat .was being berthed at the 'breakwater this mo.-aong. As a rope was running through a chock, the latter 'broke, and a heavy of iron was hurled through the aar, striking Snowd'&u, who was some fifteen, feet away, a terrific blow on the right side of' the head, and killing hilm instantly. The deceased is believed to belong to Dunedin. AUCKLAND, Last Night. A. McKenzie, second engineer of the collier Kotnku, who had' his leg torn off by the fouling of an anchor on Friday', died last night. ,