WEEK-END TOLL

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20741, 27 February 1939, Page 6

WEEK-END TOLL

HAMILTON MAN’S DEATH SIX OTHERS INJURED PIPE PENETRATEB A CAR (Special to Times) PAPAKURA, Monday Mr Errol cox (31), married, of 47 Rostrever Street, Hamilton, employed as a truck driver fry Messrs Qrinter Bros., of Mount Albert, is dead and two others are in a serious condition as the result of an unusual motor accident at Drury about 7.46 last evening. A motor-car containing two married couple and a child struck the back of a stationary motor-truck loaded with machinery and lengths of galvanised piping, which pierced the front of the car. The injured were: Mr Thomas Derrick, farmer (60), of Pukekohe East; facial lacerations; condition serious. Mrs Hilda Derrick, wife of Mr Derrick (52), concussion and facial lacerations; condition serious. Mr W. Wilson, main highways traffic inspector; injuries to the right arm and hand; condition not serious. Mr Theodore Manuel Noyer, labourer, of 1 North Avenue, Devonport; deep cut on the left jaw and injuries to his no6e; condition not serious. Mrs Gladys Innis Freda Noyer, wife of Mr Noyer; cut over the right eye; condition not serious. The child of Mr and Mrs Noyer, aged 20 months, suffered slight shock. Most of the car passengers were injured by flying glass from the windscreen and Cjor, Mr and Mrs Derrick in the front seat receiving the worst of it. Mr Cox died in hospital this morning. Mrs Derrick’s condition is reported to-day to be slightly better. TWO MEN KILLED MOTOR-TRUCK HITS POLE (Special to Times) PALMERSTON N., Sunday Two men were killed through the tray of a motor-truck on which they were riding striking a power pole in Taonui Street at 10.30 o’clock last night. The trav was torn from its fastenings and hurled to the other side of the street. Three other men who were travelling in the cab escaped without injury. The victims were:— Mr Arthur Taylor (55), married, an unholsterer. Mr Garnett Herbert William Over, (59), married, a piano tuner. The driver was subsequently arrested. An inquest was opened this afternoon, and adjourned sine die. CAR’S CRASH IN STREAM PASSENGER LOSES LIFE (By Telegraph.—Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Sunday Injuries that resulted in his death' in the New Plymouth Hospital this evening were reeeivei by Mr Erlo Arden (33), married, -t New Plymouth, in a car which ’ei‘. the New Plymouth-Wellington mam road near Inglewood last night and crashed Into a stream. Miss Margaret Ranger, of New Plymouth, and Mr John Henry Ashman, of New Plymouth, driver of the car, were injured, but their condition is not serious. BATHER’B BODY FOUND DROP IN MIDDLE OF POOL (Special to Times) POKENO, Sunday A search party recovered the body of Mr Gerald Wallbutton (32), surveyor’s assistant, who had been missing from Pokeno since Friday, from a deep pool in a stream near where he lived. His clothing was found on the edge of the pool and the body was clad in a bathing suit. There is a sudden drop in the middle of the pool, and Mr Wallbutton could not swim.