SUDDEN DEATH.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4380, 20 February 1922, Page 2

SUDDEN DEATH.

MAN EXPIRES AT WORK'. A married man named Alfred Allen, miner by occupation, residing at Karangahake, but pf late in the employ of the Thames Valley Electric Power Board at Paeroa, was on Saturday morning .last at about eleven o’clock assisting Mr Palmer, blacksmith for the company, in blowing a fire. He had made the remark to Mr Palmer that it was very close, but beyond that he did not pass any remark about (feeling unwell, i Shortly after, they had finished the work the deceased walked to the shop door and immediately fell to the grotmd.. Messrs Palmer, Ben Gwilliam, and Ronald Mitchell came forward to the man’s as-i sistance. They communicated with the doctor and police, who were in attendance within a minute or so, but life was extinct. The police had the body taken to the morgue, and the Coroner, Mr W. M. Wallnutt, of Waihi, was notified. An inquest was held at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and after the evidence of Dr. Little, who made the post-mor-tem, and the witnesses mentioned, the Coroner gave the verdict in accordr ance with the medical evidence, that the deceased died of a fatty degeneration of the heart. The deceased was 49 years of age and an old identity of the district and well respected. He leaves a widow and six young children, three boys and three girls,- their ages ranging from 12 to 4 years, io mourn his loss. This is the third death that occurred in the township last week, an um usual record;