FALL UNDER TRAILER
P.W.D. EMPLOYEE KILLED (Per Press Association.) ASHBURTON, this day. Albert Clinch, aged 25, Temuka, a Public Works Department employee, a married man with three children, was killed on the Rangitata Bridge approach at 10.45 last night. He was sitting on a five-ton trailer which was carrying a 10-ton digging machine and in operating a handbrake on the incline he slipped and was run over. Death was instantaneous.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20122, 16 December 1939, Page 7
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70FALL UNDER TRAILER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20122, 16 December 1939, Page 7
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