LIFT FATALITY
YOUNG MAN DIES FOLLOWING CRASH WITH CAR INTO WELL CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. Henry George Haxell, motor mechanie, aged 21 years, who was injured when the goods lift crashed at the premises of the Dominion Motors on August 8, died this morning. He had driven a. car on to the lift - when the cables broke and the lift dropped 20 feet to the bottom of the well. An inquest was opened and adjouriled. "My son told me that he remembered driving the car on to the lift and nothing more," said Mr. Haxell, father of the deceased.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 31, 29 September 1931, Page 3
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