STRUCK BY ROCK.
TRAMPER FATALLY INJURED. NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. Believed to have been struck by a piece of falling rock "as he walked through the Manganui Gorge, Mount Egmont, yeeterday afternoon, Mr. Oswald Joseph Riley, aged 25, of Stratford, suffered head injuries from which he died in the Stratford Hospital about two houre later. Mr. Riley was walking at the rear of a party of four. None of the others saw the rock fall.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 220, 16 September 1940, Page 3
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