CRUSHED BY A TREE.
MAN KILLED INSTANTLY. (Per Press Association.) OOPE. This Day. Struck by a tree during felling operations at ‘Mataura this morning, Mr George Anderson, a single man, aged about 64, of McQuarrie Street, Invercargill, was crushed and killed instantly. His workmate, Mr George Murphy, of Mataura, received a fracture of the left leg and was admitted to the Gore Hospital. Mi- Anderson was caught unawares when the tree slewed round and his chest was crushed against another trunk.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 113, 22 February 1941, Page 6
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