ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
WATERSIDER’S INJURY FOLLOWS STROKE. At the inquest at Wellington on James Driver, aged 55, single, a waterside worker, who died on September 26 following a fall in one of the holds of the Awatea, there was a question whether death was the result of this fall or from ■ a stroke. The coroner, Mr Gilbertson, found that death was the result of a stroke, accelerated l by the deceased striking' his head when falling. HANGING FROM RAFTER. Karly last evening the body of a Bluff resident, Arthur Calder, single, aged 62, was found hanging from a rafter in the stables of Nichol Bros., merchants, of Bluff. FOOT INJURED BY CRANE. Robert Haig, aged 32, residing at 274 Macandrew road, was admitted to hospital at 12.30 this afternoon suffering from injuries to the left foot, received when th« grape from a crane at Hillside tell on his foot.
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Evening Star, Issue 22459, 2 October 1936, Page 12
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149ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 22459, 2 October 1936, Page 12
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