ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.
CHILD FATALLY INJURED, (Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, March 3. Wiliam George Smith, aged four and a half; rvas fatally injured in an unusual accident at Lyttelton. He was sitting on the footpath near his home in Hawldiiirst Road. Opposite was standing a coal lorry. The lorry ran back across the road and hit the kerb, the impact dislodging a log on the bank above. The log fell and Struck the hoy, inflicting injuries from which he died two hours later. . MAN FATALLY BURNED. . ;j 1 . » 7- J , . . ;, . -V v/■ r s f CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Mr William Duggan,” a single man, about 70 years of age, who lived by himself on a small farm at Smart’s Road, North Loburn, was found dead on the farm yesterday afternoon.
He was seen by a neighbour' egrly on Thursday afternoon, burning undergrowth on the side of a steep hill on his property. As they did not see him yesterday, two neighbours went to-; the place where he was seen the previous day, and there found his body, badly charred. '
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 121, 4 March 1939, Page 5
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