FALL FROM TRACTOR
MAN’S DEATH ON HUTT ROAD. VERDICT AT INQUEST. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. A finding that Leslie Simmonds, r mechanic, aged 40. died in the Wellington Hospital on December 15 as a result of multiple internal injuries due to being crushed by the front wheel of a tractor was given by the City Coroner at an inquest today. The medical evidence included a statement that, an analysis showed that the deceased had consumed a considerable quantity of liquor and that might have affected him to a point of losing balance. The foreman at a Main Highways depot on the Hutt Road said that when the tractor was stopped, deceased, who drove it. was lying between the front wheel and the framework of its broom, clutching a full, unopened' bottle of beer in tile crook of his left arm. Other evidence included that of those who were present when the deceased fell from the controls.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1939, Page 8
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158FALL FROM TRACTOR Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1939, Page 8
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