SINGLE MAN KILLED.
ROCK AND EARTH FALL. COMPANION INJURED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WESTPORT, Monday. An accident on the Buller Gorge road about a mile from Tiroroa, at 1.30 p.m. to-day, resulted in the death of Mr. Ellis Leonard Hawke, single, aged 27 J years, and injuries to Mr. Claude Thomas Floharty, aged 49, married, with four children. Mr. Floharty was admitted to hospital with a fractured right leg and abrasions to the face and body. The accident occurred at the scene of road widening work. The men were engaged in trimming the road surface and water table when, without warning, a fall occurred of 25 to 30 tons of rock and earth. Mr. Hawke was apparently killed instantaneously.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 236, 5 October 1937, Page 11
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