SUFFOCATED BY GAS.
SAD ___TAX_TY AT GISBORNE. (By TtScgraph.—Press Association.) GISBORNE, this day. j A young tnan named William McLeod, son of the Harbour Board's overseer, | soecumbed to the effects produced by gas at the Gisborne sheep-farmers' freez-1 ing works, this morning. He was testing the gas main for the presence of" water—a thing he had done hundreds of tinies—and was found face downwards near the pipe, from which he had removed the stopper, life being extinct. Another young man named McCrea, who discovered McLeod and pulled his body 1 away, got a whiff of the gas'when re- ! placing the stopper, and became- uncon- j j scions, but recovered after medical I treatment.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 225, 20 September 1906, Page 2
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