ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.
YOUNG MAN KILLED BY TREE. TAUMARUNUI, June 13. A fatality occurred on Saturday afternoon on a farm at Patunga, alongside the Wanganui River, when Ivan Roscoe Smith, aged 21, with his father, A Roscoe Smith, a well-known farmer, was felling a tree. The tree had just been sawn when it swung back striking Ivan Smith on the chest. He ran a few paces and collapsed into his father's arms, dying almost immediately*
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 52, Issue 207, 14 June 1932, Page 6
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74ACCIDENTS & DEATHS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 52, Issue 207, 14 June 1932, Page 6
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