ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
A LABORER! KILLED. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, June 4. A laborer named Frank McDavitt was killed by a fall of earth while employed at' the railway works, Wellsford. His relatives are believed to live at Taihape. OLD MAN CRUSHED TO DEATH. TIMARU, June 4. Yesterday, John Stevenson, aged •about 70 years, while passing another man on the wiTarf between a railway truck and a steamer, fell over the edge. He was pinned between the steamer and a tender, his right thigh being crushed. He died at midnight. f A WINOHMAN KILLED. DUNEDIN, June 4. A winch man named James Paterson, employed on Pringle and Holb’s dredge at Miller’s Flat, was killed instantaneously last night while oiling the machinery. Deceased was a married man with a family of two children.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2520, 5 June 1909, Page 5
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132ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2520, 5 June 1909, Page 5
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