A PAINTER’S FALL.
SAVED BY A HEDGE. (Per Press Association.) Nelson, last night. To-day a painter named Walter Defrere, employed by Savego and Sons, whilst painting the Girls’ College, fell three storeys from a scaffolding as he was overreaching to a peak. Fortunately his fail was broken by a macrooarpa hedge. Defroro was much disfigured about tho face and bead, and was seriously hurt, but no bones wero broker}. The slop-ladder on which D.frcre was standing On the scaffold fp 1 on him, striking his head and stunning him.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1625, 13 December 1905, Page 2
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89A PAINTER’S FALL. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1625, 13 December 1905, Page 2
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