NECK BROKEN BY FALL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 765, 11 September 1929, Page 7

NECK BROKEN BY FALL

TRAGEDY NEAR WANGANUI ELDERLY MAN’S DEATH From Our Own Correspondent WANGANUI, Today. While walking down a steep hillside covered with loose stones, near Aramoho, early last evening, Mr. John Jones, a well-known contractor, of Wanganui, and a former Mayor of the Borough of Wanganui East, slipped and fell over a 10-foot bank, breaking his neck. Mr. Jones was visiting a metal pit which lies near Kelvin Street, Aramoho. After looking at the pit his party came down the hillside in single file and Mr. Jones slipped on a loose stone and fell down the hillside. Death was instantaneous. Mr. Jones, who was 85 years of age, ‘ was born in Llanidloes, Wales. He I arrived in New Zealand in 1569 and spent eight years on the West Coast gold diggings. He came to Wanganui 51 years ago. Buildings for which he was the contractor included the Wanganui Public Hospital, the General Post Office, the Collegiate School and Girls' College and the Patea Hospital. Mr. Jones’s wife died in 1918. He leaves an adult family of seven sons i and four daughters.