FALL FROM JETTY
PARTIALLY BLIND ALAN’S DEATH. Alekland, July 20. The death occurred in hospital last night of Cecil Dane Shepherd, a labourer, aged 33, who fell from Winstone's jetty, Customs St. West, into the water yesterday. Deceased, who was partially blind, was employed as a labourer at the Blind Institute, Parnell. He had been delivering goods and was standing at the end of the jetty, when he tripped and fell 12 feet on to a cargo ~f telegraph poles on the deck of the scow Hero, then rolled into three foot of water. He was rescued by a seaman from the scow and taken In hospital where death ensued.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2912, 21 July 1925, Page 2
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110FALL FROM JETTY Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2912, 21 July 1925, Page 2
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