A PECULIAR FATALITY.
KILLED BY A HOARDING. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Monday. A youth, 18 years of age who has not been, identified, was walking past the new post office in Lower Que™ street this morning, when the gale blew down a hoarding, which threw him against the rail erected for the protection of pedestrians from street traffic, and he was 'killed instantly, his neck -being broken. A boy crawled from beneath the hoarding uninjured. A man who was passing had his head cut, but otherwise escaped injury. IDENTITY OF THE VICTIM. Auckland, Last Night. The liody of the youth killed during the gale by a hoarding falling on him in Queen street h;is been identified as that of Leslie Ken neth Angus, aged seventeen, employed as cleaner in the railway sheds. He had been on leave, and was to have commenced work this afternoon.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 148, 19 December 1911, Page 5
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145A PECULIAR FATALITY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 148, 19 December 1911, Page 5
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