INQUESTS OPENED.
Two inquests were opened by the coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., yesterday.
Llewellyn Apeass Walter Edwards, aged 50, a relief worker employed by the Railway Department, died in the Auckland Hospital on December 12. Some weeks ago he was struck on the head with a stone, and was attended, at the hospital, later going back to his work. On December 10 he was again admitted and died two days later. A post-mortem examination revealed that he had died from meningitis.
The body of Thomas Stuart Scott, aged 73, one of two brothers who were lost in a dinghy off Orewa Beach a fortnight ago, wae identified by his son, Norman William Scott, of Tauranga, who said that his father was a good hand with boats, but witness had never known him to be a swimmer.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 296, 15 December 1933, Page 3
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