BUSH FATALITY
For the second time in the last five months a man has been killed while felling trees in Winstone Afforestation's Pipiriki block west of Raetihi. He was Mr Nepia Dewes, 45, of Turangi. He was a forestry worker and was in a gang working on contract clearing native bush at the time of the accident. Constable Brian Wilson of Ohakune said that it appeared that Mr Dewes had cut down a tree which hrought down a second tree as it fell. - Police and Labour Department offers are investigating in some detail, said constable Wilson.
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 12, 21 August 1984, Page 9
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96BUSH FATALITY Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 12, 21 August 1984, Page 9
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