FATAL ACCIDENT.
ON TtoGANUI WHARF. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WiANIGANUI, Last Night. A fatal - accident occurred on. the town wiharf this evening, a man named Jack O'Connor, aged abotit 35, single, losing his life. He wias _a butcher by trade, but for health reasons- had adopted heavy work on the wharves. He was assisting -to unload the Rimu, and' was receiving a sling of boxes on the wharf, when the boxes swung out and he iyias carried with then. By some means the whole lot came to the whmif, the boxes being on top of O'Connor, He "was badly crushed, and died in the hospital about an hour later. He could I only say he was a single man.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 July 1913, Page 5
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118FATAL ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 July 1913, Page 5
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