Fatal Accidents from Bushfalling
News was brought into town this morning (says Tuesday's Wangaaui Herald) from the Goat Valley stating that a man named Loftus G. Moyle had [ been killed there by a falling tree. Another man was cutting down a tree, and he called out to the deceased to come and see it, as he was nearly through. Moyle told him to go on cutting, and when the tree was falling, Moyle was advised to keep clear, as the tree was falling in his direction. Hearing nothing afterwards from Moyle, the man went +o see where he was, and found that the tree in falling had struck another tree, and then struct ".^ 1 Moyle on the head.
(PEB UNITED PHEBB ASSOCIATION.) Palhebston, This Day. A man named Thomas Symons was killed yesterday by the falling of a tree while felling bush at Eairanga. Deceased was an elderly man, and had been a long resident here.
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 54, 8 May 1884, Page 2
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