ACCIDENTS & DEATHS
DROWNING AT PORTLAND WHARF 1 . (Per Press Association.) WHANGAREI, January 26. A worker at the Portland Cement Works, Mr Giles, was drowned, this afternoon. He was assisting in loading a boat at the wharf and fell into the water. He was never seen again. FARMER DIES IN FIELD. MARTON, January 26. Mr Alexander Ross, a prominent Rangitikei settler, aged 63, was found dead in a paddock on liis farm at Hunterville yesterday evening. He had gone out to tend'the animals and failed to return. A search was made, and the body was found, life being .extinct. . . He had mot complained previously. In his younger days he was a heavy athlete. He was a man of excellent build, formerly employed as a black-
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 91, 27 January 1928, Page 6
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