STRUCK BY ROCK
MAN DIES FROM INJURIES CHILD DROWNED IN WELL. TWO FATALITIES NEAR NEW PLYMOUTH. ( Per Press Association.! NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 28. Struck by a rock which fell from the perpendicular face at which he was working in the Inglewood school ground improvement job to-day Sydney Richards, aged 59, a widower, received injuries from which he died later in the New Plymouth hospital. A badly fractured pelvis, internal injuries and severe shock were received by Richards. He was the father of Alan Richards, a Taranaki representative Rugby player. Neville John Hodge, aged two years and five months, was drowned in a well on the property of Mr. F. R. Roebuck, at Okato, this afternoon. The child was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Hodge, of Okato.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 50, 1 March 1939, Page 8
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130STRUCK BY ROCK Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 50, 1 March 1939, Page 8
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