FATALITY AT NGAERE
MAN SUCCUMBS TO TWJTTBTfIfc An accident occurred at Mr. Barrj Davison's property on the Clieal Road Ngaere, on Tuesday, which resulted fatally yesterday morning, A man named David Horswill Hum. phncs, a brother-in-law of Mr. Davison's was engaged in felling a fir tree. Th, tree, lodged in a neighboring on#, an< Humphnss ascended this to effect t clearance (of t# a Interlaced branch +1 i 8 0!? 0 had been cut w f t Uing tree swun ? around, dragged Humphries from his hold, threw him to the ground and falling upon him, crushed hun severely. He received medical attention, ancP | | was conveyed to the private hospital * suffenng from'si K broken ribs and a dislocated hip, One of the broken ribs penetrated the injured man's lungs, and pneumonia' supervened, to which -Humphries succumbed at about 0 o'clock yesterday morning. Deceased was a single man, mid nlwit Jo years of ago. ■ An inquest was iiold vcst?rdav noon.—Argus. ' '
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1920, Page 4
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158FATALITY AT NGAERE Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1920, Page 4
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