KILLED BY FALL
ACCIDENT AT OTAHUHU CORONER’S VERDICT “It Is an unfortunate and regrettable acident,’ said the coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in returning a verdict of accidental death at an inquest held to-day on Hugh Newton Smith, a carpenter, aged 28, who died after falling through a skylight 35 feet on to a concrete floor at the Otahuhu Railway Workshop on Tuesday. The evidence was that Smith had been overbalanced in a gust of wind while descending a ladder.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 345, 4 May 1928, Page 9
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81KILLED BY FALL Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 345, 4 May 1928, Page 9
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