Medical Board Sittings.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1941, Page 4

Medical Board Sittings.

Sittings of the Medical Board will be held in Masterton on Tuesday. Wednesday and Friday of next week, to examine men called up in the last Territorial ballot. Fatal Fall. Falling down a shaft 90 feet deep while working on the surface at the Martha Company’s mine in Waihi yesterday afternoon, a man received injuries from which he died shortly afterward. The victim was Alexander Yarr. aged 58, single, Waihi. Electric Train Derailed. A broken rail was the cause of the derailment of an electric train running between Wellington and Johnsonville at 4.34 p.m. yesterday. As a result the line was blocked till midnight. Passengers had to be transported by bus from Wellington to Ngaio, but trains were running normally on the Ngaio-Johnsonville section of the line. Nobody was injured in the mishap. Maori Dies From Injuries., Found on the main road north of Maxwell yesterday with severe head injuries, a Maori, Kirihimete Rakeikingi, aged 21, died in the Wanganui public hospital yesterday. Rakeikingi, who lived in Maxwell, had visited the home of a neighbour on Monday night, and left about 10.30. He did not return home, and was found on the road at 6.30 a.m. on Tuesday, by a commercial traveller. Mr William Robertson, of Auckland, who was going to Hawera.