ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20821, 3 June 1939, Page 9

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

SEVERE INJURIES WOMAN KNOCKED DOWN BY LORRY r (By Telegraph.—Press Association) PALMERSTON N. f Friday Severe injuries were received by a Dannevirke woman, Mrs Annie Thorstensen, when she was knocked down by a motor-lorry near the Palmerston North railway station this afternoon. Mrs Thorstensen left a train and passed between two of the taxis which sland in the middle of the street outside the station. As she emerged she was unable to ehpek herself and was knocked down by a lorry driven by Mr Arthur Hancock. Mrs Thorstensen was thrown to the road and one of Ilia back wheels of the lorry rested on her uiign. wmen j was fractured. She also received a fractured collar-bone and abrasiuns. j She was taken to the Palmerston | North Hospital.

HAND CAUGHT IN LATHE ORDEAL FOR ENGINEER (Special to Times) AUCKLAND, Friday When he caught his hand in a lathe at work yesterday, Mr Templeton William aged 03, an engineer, of Green Park Road, Penrose, received severe lacerations to the arm. Mr Gilmour’s arm became jammed in the machine, which had to be dismantled before he could be released. Twenty minutes' work was necessary. Alter receiving attention he was taken to the Auckland Hospital, where his condition is reported to be nut seri-