ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
New Plymouth, Last Night. A piece of wood, which sped with tremendous velocity off a circular saw caused the death of Percy Ronald Spun, aged 45, and a wellknown Waitoitoi farmer, to-day. The wood pierced a blood vessel in the neck and internal bleeding caused death lorn suffocation. Spun died within half an hour. He leaves a widow and four- sons and two daughters. Auckland, Last Night. A recent arrival from England, Air George Jsuntil, aged about 30 years, was drowned through failing off the steam trawler Ahuriri, of which he was mate, in the Waiheke passage this morning. His foot caught in the hauling ropes of the trawler and he was drugged overboard, and was dead before being hauled in, four minutes later, it is believed his wife is in England.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2704, 6 March 1924, Page 3
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135ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2704, 6 March 1924, Page 3
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