A LIFT FATALITY.
WELLINGTON MAN KILLED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Mr. G. Pinnock, a well-known Wellington hotel-keeper, was killed on Saturday in a lift accident at the Columbia Hotel. He had put his head through an aperture in one of the lift doors to call to someone below, -and just at that moment the lift descended from the floor above and came down upon him (before he had time to withdraw his head, inflicting injuries which were almost instantly- fatal. 15c was quite be.voml 'wipe whcnunedical assistance arrived. The late Mr. Pinnock was an elderly ruan. He is survived by Mrs. Pinnock and three sons and two daughters. He had been some twenty-five years in Wellington.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 296, 24 May 1915, Page 4
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118A LIFT FATALITY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 296, 24 May 1915, Page 4
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