BUSH-FELLER’S DEATH
EYE PIERCED BY FALLING BRANCH FATALITY NEAR TAUMARUNUI Press Association. TAUMARUNUI, To-day. A fatal accident occurred in the bush beyond Manunui yesterday afternoon. W. Aiding, a married man, aged 37 years, a bushman employed as a cross-cutter by Messrs. Ellis and Burnand, went to fell a punga fern with which to construct a stage around a rimu tree that had been scarfed. He cut the punga. looking up to watch it as it fell. It struck a nearby tree, detaching a branch, which fell and struck Aiding in the eye, penetrating the brain. Aiding was conveyed to the Taumarunui Hospital, where he died at 10.30 last night.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 290, 28 February 1928, Page 1
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