WAIKATO FATALITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 238, 5 October 1908, Page 5

WAIKATO FATALITIES.

11 I ■ MAN FOUND DROWNED. I BUSH FELLING FATALITY. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, this day. The body of William Douglas Scott, formerly secretary of the Waikato Brew- i cry Company, Hamilton, was found today in the Warikato River at NgaruawaJiia. He left hece six weeks ago, and spent a week at Nganrawahia. He then disappeared, without attracting any attention, and was mot missed. Deceased was a married man, 45 years of age, and was formerly an auctioneer at Opunake. He was weU-known in the Taranaki district. He _____ two brothers in Wellington. A young man named Old, son of Mr. John Old, of Otorohanga, died in the Waikato Hospital on Saturday afternoon, the result of injuries received in t_w King Country while bush-felling. A large meeting representing ioo dairy farmera of Waihou passed a resolution condemning the proposed dairy regulations as being likely to hamper and harass the industry, and as not being required. |