ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 100, 14 April 1930, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

l Per Press Association.) Robert Callander, aged 55, farmer, of East Tqieri, Dunedin, who was admitted to hospital on Friday with a fractured skull caused by being kqocked down by a motor car, died yesterday. The inquest has been adjourned for a post-mortem examination. David John Wallace, aged 21, was killed during bushfelling at Opouri Valley, Marlborough, on Saturday. A tree had been felled, and a large limb broken from an adjacent tree fell on Wallace and killed him instantly, his skull being crushed. At Rotorua, Raymond Hurrell, aged 18, died this morning in King George V. Hospital as a result of injuries received yesterday which are said to be the result of a collision between the motor cycle he was riding and a motor car. Deceased was brought in by a lorry late at night. Details are meagre. His parents are storekeepers residing at Mokai.

A serious motor smash occurred at Mount Stewart on Saturday evening, wheii Archie Hickey, on a motor cycle, and a ear containing a party of five footballers, driven by Joseph Evans, collided. The three most concerned were removed to the Palmerston N. Hospital, Hickey with both jaws and one leg broken, Evans with a broken arm and Phillips Gerald Fitzgerald shook.

Norman John Cook, a Johnsonville grocer and his wife have died as tho result "of a motor accident on the Ngauranga Gorge road about 2.45 o’clock on Sunday afternoon. Two five-soater ears collided at a right, angled bond and Cook’s car went over the bank, nnd was completely, wrecked, ending its career in a stream at the bottom,. Mrs Cook was sitting besides her husband, who was driving, and was killed instantly. Cook received a fracture of the right ribs, dying in hospital at 4.30. The iwo children, Joan, aged 8, and William, aged 7, who occupied tho back seat, wore uninjured.