STRUCK BY TREE
MARRIED Han KILLED. Br Telegraph.—Putts association Tauntarunui, February 28. A. fatal accident occurred in the bush beyond Manunui yesterday afternoon. W. Aiding, a married man, aged 37, a bushman, employed as a cross-cutter by Ellis and Burnand, went to foil a punga fern, with which to construct a stage round a rimu that had been scarfed. He cut the punga, and was looking up to watch it as it fell- It struck a nearby tree, detaching a branch, which fell and struck Aiding in the eye, penetrating to the brain. Aiding was conveyed to the Tauntarunui Hospital, where ho died at 10.30 last night. '
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 129, 29 February 1928, Page 5
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107STRUCK BY TREE Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 129, 29 February 1928, Page 5
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