ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3526, 30 December 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

CPSH3H ASSOCIATION TEDEGSAMJ DUNEDIN, Dec. 29. The adjourned inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of John MacLuckie, a corporation employee. who was killed on Wednesday by being run over by a steam roller, was continued to-day The inquest had bene adjourned for the purpose of holding a post mortem examination.

Dr Roberts stated that he found no indications which would point to deceased having suffered from affection of the heart or from giddiness. The lungs were normal. James Glass stated that he looked out from a window when he heard the roller passing and saw MacLuckie midway between the front and rear wheels. He was evidently struggling to get clear of the rear wheels, and he assumed that the front wheels had passed over him. The left hand real wheel then passed over him. The evidence of the driver showed that it was difficult for him to see immediately in front of the engine on the left hand as the fly wheel obstructed the driver’s vision. It was also stated that there was a ja 2 on the road where deceased fell. ’ The Coroner (Mr C. C. Graham) said there could be very little doubt that the man was too close to the enoine. It was an error of judgment on"'his part. He must have slipped when too close to the engine. He would reutrn a verdict that the cause of death was being crushed by the roller through having accidentally fallen under it. No blame was attachable to the driver of the engine..

[PSESS V distressing fatality, by which two young men, residents of Ravenebourne, lost their lives occurred at Taiaroa Heads about 6 o clock this evening. It appears that Thomas Shanks and David Timlin were spending their holidays at a crib at the Maori Kaik, and about 6 o clock they went out in a -dinghy to take m . a moki net which had been set during the dav. They succeeded in drawing the net into the dinghy, hut the tide had*just turned, and, with a strong north-easter blowing, a heavy sea was running. It is surmised that the dinghv tipped, took in a wave and turned over. A brother of one of the men noticed the pair clinging to the keel of the boat, and immediately crave the alarm on shore, and a launch was put out, but when it reached the boat the men had disappeared. Both men were fully dressed and were good swimmers. Both were married- Timlin only 12 months—while Shanks had one child. A number of launches en-o-arred in a search for the bodies, hut late they had not been found.