HUNDRED-FOOT FALL
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Carpenter Caught by Fall of Earth
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NEW PLYMOUTE, Last Nigkt. Dcsconding from the brink of a cliff faco at Patea m search of a tyro which had been .discarded in error William I.acey, a carpenter, was swept from his hold on tbe rope by a i'all of earth and fell over a hundrcd feet to the beach where he was covered with debris. He was found buried in the debris. ■Several nicn releascd him and a docter was lowcred down tho cliif by a rope to render assistance. Tvventy men worhed for two liours hauling the injurcd man up the cliff on a motor-car cushion and ho was taken to tho hospital. Laccy suffe.red iioad ipjuries and abrasions, but the extent of his injuries wa* not known to-nigkt
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 42, 5 March 1937, Page 11
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