FOUND DEAD.
AN ELDERLY MAN.
DISCOVERY NEAR SCHOOL.
FALL DOWN LIGHT SHAFT.
An elderly man was found dead thus morning at the bottom of a light shaft at the Seddon Memorial Technical College, Wellersley Street, city.
Identity was established early this afternoon when ft was found that deceased was Angue Nicolson, aged 64, * well-known shipwright employed by Low and Sons, of Freeman's Bay.
Mr. Nicolson, who lived with hie wife and adult family at 0, Summers Street, Ponsonby, was not seen by his people after he left for the city at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning. The shaft runs down the side of the main school building, and is shut off from the playground by a concrete wall. Apparently the man fell from the top of the wall to the base of the shaft, a distance of about 15ft.
A post mortem examination* wa« carried out this afternoon, and an inquest will be opened to-morrow before Mr. Wyvern Wilson.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 229, 27 September 1937, Page 8
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