SURFACEMAN FATALLY HURT
, j WAXdAXCI, Xov. 1. Ile'ad injuries received in an unknown manner some time 011 Saturday niglit, i or early Sunday niorning, caused tlie i death at the Patea Public Hosjutal yes | terday of a 4.4-year-old railway surface !■ mi,ii, Air". S. M. Plair, who lived in a j railway «hut atf t'astleniere. Patea. Poii'-e iiiquirie-s are being made as ti. I whether tlie fatal injuries were suJfered in a fall down some steps al a j»art\ Alr. Plair uttended 011 Saturday niglil, or whether they were sulfered after liis dejiarture from tlie parly, and hovv they were caused. Alr. Plair was fotind unconscoius in Kssex Street, Patea, at f..'!n o 'cJock on Sunday niorning and was laken to his liut. His fellow workmen attended to him t hrouglioiit Sunday and when ii was realised 011 Alouday that his condi tion was not inipro\ ing, niedical assist ance was oldained. There was 110 sign of injury. At the Patea Ilnspital an ojieration was perfornied but death took jdace yesterday niorning.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 November 1946, Page 5
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