A FATAL DRINK.
DEATH OF A LABOURER. TWO OTHERS HAVE A NARROW ESCAPE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) . After partaking of a. drink of stout from a bottle at Ruawai on Friday three men were taken ill. Two men recovered, but the third, a labourer named Joan Brown, a eingle man between 40 and 50 years of age, was removed to tie Wairoa Hospital, -where he died on Saturday morning-. Deceased drank a cup full of liquor, a second man merely tasted the liquor, and the third suspected something wrong owing: to the colour of the liquor, and was also saved from serious results. An inquest was opened, and adjourned pending analysis and report.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 201, 25 August 1919, Page 6
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112A FATAL DRINK. Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 201, 25 August 1919, Page 6
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