ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
MAN I I 'ALLS DOWN A SHAFT. Mr Dougherty, a commercial. traveller from Christchurch, was lucking foxgloves at Larriker’s Hill, Ivuraara, with his mother-in-law, this morning, when ho suddenly foil down a 70ft Mi aft. A rescue party with a ropa got him out alter some difficulty. He was found to bo suffering from injuries to Ins head and side, and was taken to the estlaud Hospital.—Greymoutn Press Association telegiam. MAORI GIRL DROWNED. Matekina Horua, aged twelve, a Maori girl, who was subject to epileptic fits, was found drowned in a creek at Rangitukia— Gisborne Press Association telegram. bushpeller killed. a Whaugarei Association message states that Hugh Christie, aged fiftyeight, a married man, with a family, was killed yesterday while buslifclhng at Moengawahine. Ho was last seen at 3 p.m. yesterday by a fellowworker. When ho did not return in the evening ft search patty was organised, and it found Christie dead, with a tree across his body.
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Evening Star, Issue 20052, 18 December 1928, Page 7
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161ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 20052, 18 December 1928, Page 7
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