MAN KILLED.
FALL FROM TOWER.
FATALITY AT PENROSE
| PUBLIC WORKS FOREMAN. j Mr. Richard Alexander Burk, aged .about o,i, a foreman for the Public Works Department, was killed at PenI rose this afternoon. He was foreman I of a gang working on the power lines at I the corner of Rawhiti and Campbell Roads. When work was to be resumed after lunch Mr. Burk climbed a tower. He fell to the ground, and was dead when picked up. Mr. Burk lived at Penrose and had an adult family of four children. An inquest is to be held.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 226, 24 September 1934, Page 8
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