FALL PROVES FATAL
CARPENTER INJURED ON KAIRANGA Mr. Henry Grocock, aged 47. married, of 21 Melford Street, who suffered severe injuries to his head as the result of a fall while working on the Union Steam Ship Company’s vessel Ivairanga at Queen’s Wharf yesterday morning, died at the Auckland Hospital at about 5 p.m. Mr. Grocock was employed with two other men in moving an ice chest to a new position on the boat deck. Suddenly he stepped back, overbalanced, and fell seven feet to the iron welldeck of the boat. The injured man was picked up in an unconscious condition and immediately removed to the hospital by the St. John Ambulance.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 882, 28 January 1930, Page 16
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112FALL PROVES FATAL Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 882, 28 January 1930, Page 16
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