SCRUB CUTTER KILLED
CARRIED FIVE MILES ON
STRETCHER
BY TELEGBAPH.- I’HESS ASSOCIATION.
Taumarunui, November 26. Yesterday, near Aukopae, about fifteen miles down the Wanganui River, Harry Roberts fell over a cliff and was fatally injured. The deceased was employed by the Public Works Department, and was engaged in cutting scrub preparatory to a road being formed. Roberts fell some seventy feet. A stretcher was made by his mates ancl the injured man was carried over rough country for five miles, but expired before medical attention arrived. At the inquest to-day a verdict ot accidental death was returned.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 54, 27 November 1926, Page 13
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97SCRUB CUTTER KILLED Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 54, 27 November 1926, Page 13
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