ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
A MOTOR ACCIDENT. Per Press Association. Auckland, Friday. Percy Cornwall was making a trial spin in his 100-h.p. motor-car at Alexandra Park, in company with a. boy named AVilliam Jlainkley, when one of the tyres hurst and the motor-car crashed into the fence, which it demolished for about twenty yards. Cornwall was slightly cut, and the boy had four ribs fractured, and was removed to the hospital. KILLED BY A I-ALL OF EARTH. Hamilton, Last Night. A laborer named Kirby. a single man, aged about 27. was killed by a fall of earth at Leslie's Gully this" afternoon, where excavation work is progressing. It appears that he was backing a cart into the face when a ton fall occurred, burying the unfortunate man. He was quickly dug out, but it was found that a stone had stick his temple, and he died a few minutes afterwards.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 287, 26 April 1913, Page 5
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149ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 287, 26 April 1913, Page 5
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