During last month the Labour Department found employment in the Wellington district for 117 married and single men, with 98 dependants. The body of Charles Scott, who was drowned in the Waipukurau Lake, eleven days ago, by a beat, upsetting, was recovered yesterday morning. A Blenheim Press Association telegram states that a married man named Frank Lawry, a new arrival from Dayiesford, Victoria, was killed at Battey's Farm, Springlands, 011 Monday last. He was employed handing wood to a cutting machine, and it is supposed he overbalanced and struck his head against the travelling wheel. The machinery was not in motion at the time, and there is no positive evidence of what happened, but he was seen to fall and was picked up dead, with his head smashed. He leaves a widow and several small children. For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is tid and 2s fid.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8528, 4 September 1907, Page 5
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151Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8528, 4 September 1907, Page 5
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