A TWELVE FEET FALL.
MAN DIES FROM INJURIES. Severe head injuries and abrasions were sus.ained by Mr. E. S. Postlewaight, an employee of the Chelsea Sugar Works, yesterday afternoon, when h. slipped from a stSck of sugar and fell a distance of 12 feet. A launch was requisitioned and the injured man brought to Anckland. where he was transferred to the hospital b\ tli2 St. John ambulance. An operation was performed, but he succumbed at 4 a.m. to day. The deceased resided at 9. Inkerman Street, Freeman"* Bay. aud was 52 years of age.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 147, 23 June 1926, Page 8
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94A TWELVE FEET FALL. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 147, 23 June 1926, Page 8
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