FALL OF 40 FEET.
A FORTUNATE ESCAPE. [IIY TKLKVRAPH. —I'RKSS ASSOCIATION".] Auckland, This Day. A man named McGrath, employed as a plasterer on the Strand Arcade, Queen street, had a narrow escape yesterday afternoon while working on the top storey. He slipped and fell forty feet to the first floor, but fortunately landed on a board which had a good deal of spring in it, and so he escaped serious injury. His injuries amounted to nothing more serious than several broken ribs.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 342, 4 March 1911, Page 5
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82FALL OF 40 FEET. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 342, 4 March 1911, Page 5
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