ACCIDENT TOLL

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20990, 18 December 1939, Page 9

ACCIDENT TOLL

FATE OF LITTLE GIRL

DROWNED IN COPPER MOTHER’S TRAGIC DISCOVERY (Special lo Times) MATAMATA, Sunday While playing with a dipper * and bailing out a copper, Elaine Margaret Guy, aged two years, daughter of Mr and Mrs William Guy, of Waharoa, fell in the copper. She was found by her mother floating face downward, the water being about six inches from the top. A St. John ambulance officer, Mr A. Clarke, of Waharoa, and a doctor from Matamata applied artificial respiration for two hours without success. An inquest was opened before Mr A. J. Tong, district coroner. GUNNER KILLED FALL OVER CLIFF BATTERY POINT FATALITY (By Telegraph.—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday Overbalancing and falling 20 feet on to the rocks below, a gunner stationed at Battery Point was killed almost instantaneously this morning. He was William David Burke, of 74 Clyde Street, Invercargill, aged 20. Gunner Burke, who was alone at the time, was tipping rubbish over the cliff when he lost his balance and fell, striking his head on the rocks. MINER’S DEATH CAUGHT IN FALL OF COAL (Special to Times) GREYMOUTH, Sunday Caught by a fall of coal in the New Strongman State coal mine on Tuesday afternoon, Mr Guisardo Pavan, aged 28, of Runanga, suffered injuries from which he died in hospital today. He received a severe crushing and shock, and one leg had to be amputated. All the State mines in the district will be idle until Wednesday, following the funeral on Tuesday. FATAL COLLISION BOY THROWN FROM BICYCLE (Special to Times) AUCKLAND, Monday In a collision with a motor-car at Onehunga on Saturday afternoon George Blagdon Wescott, aged 13, son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Edward Wescott, of Onehunga, was thrown heavily from his bicycle and suffered injuries to his head. He was taken to the hospital, where he died. FALL FROM GRADER DRIVER FATALLY INJURED (Special to Times) WELLINGTON, Saturday Severe injuries to the head, face and body, from which he died soon after being admitted to hospital, were received by Mr L. Simmons, married, of Newtown, Wellington, when he fell from a grader on the Hutt Road on Friday afternoon.

As Mr Simmons fell from the grader his clothing caught in the moving machinery and he was dragged for a short distance. It is believed that the injuries were inflicted by one of the wheels supporting the heavy vehicle.

FISHERMAN MISSING CLOTHES FOUND IN LAUNCH (By TelegTaph.—Press Association) DUNEDIN, Sunday The discovery of an empty fishing launch on the Portobello side of the harbour early this-morning led to the belief that a drowning fatality had occurred. A man’s coat, boots and other clothing were found in the boat. Letters in a pocket identified the owner as Mr John Steffens, an old man, of St. Kilda, who went fishing early in the morning. The police are carrying out a search. MOTOR-CYCLIST KILLED COMPANION SERIOUSLY HURT (By Telegraph.— Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sunday In a collision between a motor-car and a motor-cycle at a street intersection on Saturday night Mr Henry Bond Sievers, aged 23, single, of South Makara, municipal milk roundsman, was killed and Mr William Goggin, Post and Telegraph Department messenger, of Wellington, suffered a fracture of the left thigh and head injuries. Mr Sievers was the rider of a motor-cycle, with Mr Goggin as pillion passenger. The victims were taken to the Public Hospital, where Mr Sievers died. Mr Goggin’s conditions is serious. YOUNG WOMAN DROWNED BROTHER’S RESCUE EFFORTS (Special to Tlmest AUCKLAND, Sunday While bathing in the Waikato River near Puni this afternoon Miss Dorothy Winifred Hiscock, aged 19. daughter of Mr and Mrs F. W. Hisccck. of Puni, was drowned. Miss Hiscock was one of a family

party comprising two brothers and two sisters who went to the river to swim. They all entered the water, but after a while the other three got out and rested on the bank. The older sister was still swimming when the others heard her cry for help. The younger brother, Archibald, plunged into the water, which was very choppy and running strongly, and struck out for his sister. The elder brother, Alexander, ran up the bank and launched a boat. Meanwhile the younger brother, who had reached his sister, made an effort to bring her to the boat, then only a short distance away. However, his strength gave out and both sank. The • brother rose to the surface alone and was hauled into the boat. The water at the point where the girl disappeared is very deep and nothing further was seen of her. The police were informed, and dragging was begun later in the day. EXPLOSION OF PETROL BOY SERIOUSLY INJURED (By Teleg-rapb.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sunday Bums to the face, legs and arms and severe shock were suffered by a Petone schoolboy, Hector Entwisle, aged 14, when petroleum in a drum exploded. The boy’s condition is reported to be serious. The accident occurred when several boys were assembling petrol drums for a raft and petrol in one of the drums exploded. STRUCK BY ENGINE RAILWAY GANGER KILLED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WANGANUI, Sunday Struck by the engine of a southbound mixed train at Waitotara on Saturday afternoon, Mr Thomas Barnard, a railway ganger, of Waitotara, was killed instantly. Mr Barnard, a married man with three children, was engaged in clearing weeds from a loop on the station yard when the accident occurred. WOMAN’S THIGH BROKEN When she fell at her home on Sunday, Mrs Mostyn Innes-Jones, of Te ! Kuiti. received a fractured thigh. | She was taken to a private hospital I in Auckland by a St. John ambulance from that city.