FALL FROM SCAFFOLD.
INQUEST IN CHBISTCHVRCH. NEGLIGENCE NOT SUGGESTED. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent'.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. ' At the resumed inquest to-day concerning the death of Harry Edward Woods, a carpenter, aged 53, of Hagley Street, who died on December 17 after falling from a scaffold on which he was working, the coroner, Mr. H. P, Lawry, returned a verdict that death was due to acute softening of the -brain and injury ,to the spine, originating from an accidental fall from a scaffolding, there being no suggestion of. insufficiency of the . scaffolding or of negligence in .its erection. •
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1930, Page 11
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